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by Pet_Ant 493 days ago
But did it provide a gain in power and soundness? There issues with the 2.x system.
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It did, which makes it all the more frustrating that you can't adopt it separately from the syntax and tooling changes.
But the new syntax is optional, right? So you could upgrade and keep the old syntax? (I'm not a Scala dev, so this is just my impression.)
Some of the syntax changes are optional, some of them like the _/* change aren't.
Most programming languages have unsound features.