Scala Roadmap Post 2.9.0 [closed]

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With the Scala 2.9.0 RC3 now available and the release page describing the great features that were added in that release, does anyone know what we can expect in 2.10 and future releases?

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Here are three things that have been mentioned so far:

"interesting developments for making use of massively parallel hardware in novel ways", for example, embedded DSLs that generate optimized code for GPU architectures http://www.scala-lang.org/node/7285

Edit: Tiark Rompf gives more information (with links) about some very exciting ongoing work of Scala virtualization: http://groups.google.com/group/scala-user/msg/b51424a9855d9b5d

Better binary compatibility between Scala versions via Java bytecode rewriting http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala.user/39290

A long term plan to rethink equality http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala.internals/4793