[nem-en] Re: Scala: what you say about it?

[vc]

> I think that now there comes the time for stabilizing the language
> itself and focus on:
> - fixing bugs
> - improvements in compiler / macros API
> - improvements in performance
> - and of course your great Integration project

+ We *necessarily* should improve debugging support.
It's really important! Now it's bad.

> Getting forward in this field + maybe also some improvements in
> documentation / tutorials is in my opinion a good road-map for
> Nemerle.

Documentation and articles is very important to. We already work on this (in
Russin) :). 

> writing macros must not be hard for
> reasonably good programmer.

Writing macros is no problem now. Debugging macros at now not simple task. I
think, compiler API and debugging facility must be improved.

> - as Michal mentioned, Nemerle did not "catch up" very well yet,
> probably because of the current trends in computer science, maybe
> because of some of our controversial design decisions (keeping close
> to ML languages and insisting on static typing), but as those
> decisions drived us to create this language and are *good* in our
> opinion it is not something to be ashame of

Michal early is upset. Now Nemerle does not exist! Language which has
compiler with bugs, no cool IDE support, not much articles and without real
PR is NOT EXIST for mainstream.

When I speak - Nemerle. Me ask "Where stable (release) version?", "Where IDE
support?", "What it language give me?".

You must resolve all it problems. And we can help you.


> - the future of Nemerle is defined by the community, we will have the
> language / platform, which we will develop all together

All about I say is really important for making big community.