Scala comes to .NET/Mono

The Scala website, fount of all Scala information, has an interview and some details of a project to bring Scala to .NET and hence Mono. The project is sponsored by Microsoft which has interesting implications in itself.

The key person involved in the project is Miguel Garcia, part of the Scala group at EPFL ( École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) which is of course where the language was invented.

The current state of the project is that you can actually write Scala programs that run under .NET. There are a few limitations in using .NET libraries but these should be fixed in the near future. You can also use Visual Studio to build Scala programs but at the moment the plugin doesn't support nice features such as autocomplete etc. A new plugin, expected later in the year, is promised to provide full code support but you can use JVM IDE tools and simply import the completed code later.

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