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		jane_red on April 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's Next for Scala > It will take years for large codebases to be upgraded to Scala 3 Which for production level code bases means never. I can't even imagine what we are going to do with our 7 year old Scala code base.

vvillena on April 11, 2020 [–]

It's the Java 1.4/Java 6/Java 8 problem all over again. Big companies refuse to keep up with the base languages, and important parts of the ecosystem (e.g. Spark) fall behind the language.

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