This project has been discontinued. But fear not, a new scala-native is on the way, Denys Shabalin a phd student at EPFL is working on completely new implementation of scala-native. His previous work, scala offheap, a way to use off-heap memory on the JVM with type- and memory-safety is very impressive.
Would native-compiled scala allow for some of the features that have been prevented by the need for Java semantic compatibility, like guaranteed tail call optimization?
Isn't this what the @tailrec annotation is for? If it compiles it's tail recursive. This is separate than actually JIT'ing the call bytecode into a loop, I realize, but for a pragmatic engineer there's already a solution.
I wonder if there will be any potential for C++ interop. I would __LOVE__ to be able to code Scala that can be called from and in turn call C++ interfaces.
