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by javafu2 4512 days ago
F# team ask for modifications of the CLR (covariant delegates), porting a language on the CLR if you are not Microsoft is hard.

Scala never really run on the CLR, it's a vaporware, sorry a work in progress.

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Yep, scala's .net back-end is discontinued, and one of the main challenges (I worked on it a bit) was indeed generating the proper generic signatures. (I hear people are using ikvm these days.)