The crazy thing is that all of those points are blatantly false.<p>- There has never been more activity in tooling as in the last half year. There are whole tooling conferences with almost 200 people attending. Tooling has been improved steadily, and people made huge progress on all fronts (ScalaIDE, IntelliJ, Ensime, SBT). Things have improved vastly.<p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scala-lang.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2.12-roadmap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scala-lang.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2.12-roadmap&#x2F;</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scala-lang.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;roadmap-next&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scala-lang.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;roadmap-next&#x2F;</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;scala-internals&#x2F;flgnddxPRTk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;scala-internals&#x2F;flgn...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;scala-internals&#x2F;qRgoFK2OOF4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;scala-internals&#x2F;qRgo...</a><p>- Dotty is not developed by the core team. The people working on Dotty are additional resources put into Scala, and they are helping scalac development because they share design approaches and bug fixes with the Scala team.