Don’t get me wrong – I’ve written tons of Java over the last decade or so & think its been a great evolutionary step from C++ and Smalltalk (lots of other languages have helped too like JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, Python etc). However I’ve long wanted a long term replacement to javac. I even created a language to scratch this itch.

Source: James Strachan’s Blog: Scala as the long term replacement for java/javac?