Typelevel Scala and the future of the Scala ecosystem (2014)

Typelevel Scala and the future of the Scala ecosystem. Tl;dr Typelevel is forking Scala; we call on all stakeholders in the Scala ecosystem to collaborate on the creation of an independent, non-profit, open source foundation to safeguard the interests of the entire Scala community. The IDEs provide their own Scala variants which more or less accurately approximate Typesafe Scala. Of these, the only compiler targeting the JVM which is generally suitable for use by the Scala community at large in the near term is the Typesafe Scala compiler. With this in mind, we intend to create a new Scala distribution, as a conservative fork of the Typesafe Scala compiler, with a focus on meeting the needs of the part of the Scala community which has coalesced around the Typelevel stack. As a conservative fork, our aim is to be merge compatible from the Typesafe Scala compiler, and a key objective is to feed pull requests back to the Typesafe Scala compiler. To that end, we believe that it is time for the formation of an independent, non-profit, open source foundation to safeguard the interests of the entire Scala community - we call on all organizations and individuals who want to see a flourishing Scala ecosystem to join with us in that project.