Scala 2.12 is the new big thing! It has 33 near features, but more importantly it contains optimizations for Java 8 using Java 8 language features such as lambdas and default methods, while still being backwards compatible with Java 6.
Scala 2.13 more focused on improving scala’s built-in libraries, including the collections library. Particularly, it will become more inline with spark collections and more have more robust lazy collection support. There are also plans to separate Scala into a core and platform module.
Neat things happening with Scala:
- Scala.js
- Scala native