THE FUTURE OF SCALA

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Scala 3 timeline and concrete roadmap: 3.0 (May 2021), 3.1 (Oct 2021) and 3.2 (Sep 2022) are stable, RC3 targets 3.3 as an LTS with 3-year LTS patch guarantees; release cadence targets 6 weeks but typically runs 8–12 weeks with RCs at least one week old. Upcoming features moving from draft → experimental → SIP include optional braces for params, linter, new lazy val impl, c47 type-parameter interleaving and polymorphic function values. Tooling changes: Scala CLI official runner, early toolkit and WebAssembly work; demonstrated a working GraphQL client with compiler-driven completions and macro-produced actionable fixes.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:07Release History
3. 6:55Release Window
4. 11:04Stable Future
5. 17:28Precip
6. 20:31Future
7. 22:03Inspiration
8. 24:29Demo

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