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		melling on Nov 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scala is Unfit for Serious Development This article is several months old. Are people happy with the 2.8 release? Is now a good time to adopt Scala and to start using Scala in production?

wheaties on Nov 15, 2010 [–]

Go out and start using it. Sure 2.8 was a major upgrade but everything improved with that update for the better. Martin's reply is key. He's completely behind making the language a real success.

gtani on Nov 15, 2010 | [–]

2.8.1 was mostly a bugfix release. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8102

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