Open Source Scala Compilers

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The exciting new version of Scala 3 brings many improvements and new features. Scala 3 is a complete overhaul of the Scala language. At its core, many aspects of the type-system have been changed to be more principled. While this also brings exciting new features along (like union types), first and foremost, it means that the type-system gets (even) less in your way and for instance type-inference and overload resolution are much improved. One underlying core concept of Scala was (and still is to some degree) to provide users with a small set of powerful features that can be combined to great (and sometimes even unforeseen) expressivity. For example, the feature of implicits has been used to model contextual abstraction, to express type-level computation, model type-classes, perform implicit coercions, encode extension methods, and many more. Learning from these use cases, Scala 3 takes a slightly different approach and focuses on intent rather than mechanism.

Scala combines object-oriented and functional programming in one concise, high-level language. Scala's static types help avoid bugs in complex applications, and its JVM and JavaScript runtimes let you build high-performance systems with easy access to huge ecosystems of libraries. Scastie is Scala + sbt in your browser! You can use any version of Scala, or even alternate backends such as Dotty, Scala.js, Scala Native, and Typelevel Scala. You can use any published library. You can save and share Scala programs/builds with anybody. The Scala Library Index (or Scaladex) is a representation of a map of all published Scala libraries. With Scaladex, a developer can now query more than 175,000 releases of Scala libraries. Scaladex is officially supported by Scala Center. In Scala, functions are values, and can be defined as anonymous functions with a concise syntax. In Scala, case classes are used to represent structural data types.

Scala Native is an optimizing ahead-of-time compiler and lightweight managed runtime designed specifically for Scala. Pointers, structs, you name it. Low-level primitives let you hand-tune your application to make it work exactly as you want it to. You’re in control. Calling C code has never been easier. With the help of extern objects you can seamlessly call native code without any runtime overhead. Scala Native is compiled ahead of time via LLVM. This means that there is no sluggish warm-up phase that’s common for just-in-time compilers. Your code is immediately fast and ready for action. Scala Native requires Clang, which is part of the LLVM toolchain. The recommended LLVM version is the most recent available for your system provided that it works with Scala Native. Scala Native uses the Immix garbage collector by default. You can use the Boehm garbage collector instead. If you chose to use that alternate garbage collector both the native library and header files must be provided.

Strong typing guarantees your code is free of silly mistakes; no more mixing up strings or numbers, forgetting what keys an object has, or worrying about typos in your method names. Scala.js takes care of all this tedious book-keeping for you, letting you focus on the actual, more interesting problem your application is trying to solve. Scala.js optimizes your Scala code into highly efficient JavaScript. Incremental compilation guarantees speedy (1-2s) turn-around times when your code changes. The generated JavaScript is both fast and small, starting from 45kB gzipped for a full application. Scala.js loves JavaScript libraries, including React and AngularJS. You can use any JavaScript library right from your Scala.js code, either in a statically or dynamically typed way. You won't even notice you're crossing a language border!

The scala-fast-dynamic is a compiler plugin + a small runtime library for the Scala programming language (http://www.scala-lang.org) that re-implement the way structural types are translated into JVM bytecode, achieving higher performance.