scala jvm language-design scala-2.8 jvm-languages

What compromises Scala made to run on JVM?

Scala is a wonderful language, but I wonder how could be improved if it had it's own runtime?
I.e. what design choices were made because of JVM choice?

Solution

This article is a discussion with Martin Odersky (Scala's creator) and includes the compromises that were made in Scala for compatibility with Java. The article mentions:

Static overloading of methods
Having both traits and classes
Inclusion of null pointers.

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