Required Java Version

Dotty 0.1.2 targets Java 8. We don't have plans to add support for earlier versions of Java.

IDE support for Dotty

Reporting Bugs / Known Issues

Please file any bugs you encounter. If you’re unsure whether something is a bug, please ask on the Dotty gitter channel.

Dotty Doc

Dotty has added support for Dotty Doc. Actually, the dotty documentation site https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/ is generated by it. Looks nice, doesn’t it?

#Other implemented features:

This release ships with the following features:

• TASTY support by @odersky, @xeno-by and @darkdimius [1]
• HK-types support by @odersky, @smarter and @darkdimius [2]
• Intersection and Union Types by @odersky [3] [4]
• Enumerations by @odersky [4] [5] [6]
• Implicit By-Name Parameters by @odersky [7]
• Miniphases-based design by @darkdimius, @odersky and @olhotak [8]
• @static methods support by [@darkdmius] [9]
• Non-blocking lazy vals by @darkdimius [10]
• JVM code emission by @magarciaEPFL and @darkdimius [11]
• Efficient multi-dimensional array allocation by @darkdimius [12]
• Default-method based trait composition @odersky and @darkdimius [13] [14]
• Trait parameters by @odersky [15]
• Working contravariant implicits by @odersky [16]
• Option-less pattern matching by @odersky, @darkdimius and @OlivierBlanvillain [17]
• SAM-based anonymous functions by @magarciaEPFL, @darkdimius and @retronym [18]
• Pattern matching support by @darkdimius [19]
• Value classes support by @smarter and @darkdimius [20]
• Pattern matching exhaustivity checks by @liufengyun [21]
• Tailrec optimization by @darkdimius [22] [23]
• Language server protocol implementation by @smarter [24]
• VS code plugin by @smarter [24]
• Vulpix: new test-suite driver by @felixmulder that replaces partest by @vsalvis [25]
• Java parser by @olhotak [26]
• Local optimizations(-optimise) by @darkdimius and @OlivierBlanvillain [27]
• sbt support by @smarter [28]
• DottyDoc by @felixmulder [29]
• Implicit Function Types by @odersky [30]
• Phantom Types by @nicolasstucki [31]
• Functions with more than 22 parameters by @odersky [32]
• Inline keyword by @odersky [33]

Contributors

The Dotty team and contributors have closed 750 issues and have merged a total of 1258 pull requests.

Concretely, according to

git ls-tree -r -z --name-only HEAD -- |egrep -z -Z -E '\.(scala)$'| xargs -0 -n1 git blame --line-porcelain |grep "^author "|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr

71 people contributed code, tests, and/or documentation to Dotty 0.1.2-RC1. The following people have contributed to this release: