Example sbt project that compiles using Dotty

Usage

This is a normal sbt project, you can compile code with sbt compile and run it with sbt run, sbt console will start a Dotty REPL.

If compiling this example project fails, you probably have a global sbt plugin that does not work with dotty, try to disable all plugins in ~/.sbt/0.13/plugins and ~/.sbt/0.13.

Template projects

The fastest way to have a new project in dotty is using one of the following templates:

Using Dotty in your own project

project/plugins.sbt

addSbtPlugin("ch.epfl.lamp" % "sbt-dotty" % "0.1.3")

project/build.properties

sbt.version=0.13.15

Older versions of sbt are not supported.

build.sbt

Any version number that starts with 0. is automatically recognized as Dotty by the sbt-dotty plugin, you don't need to set up anything:

scalaVersion := "0.2.0-RC1"

New builds of dotty are published nightly, look at the bottom of https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ch/epfl/lamp/dotty_0.3/ to find the latest version number. Alternatively, you can set scalaVersion := dottyLatestNightlyBuild.get to always use the latest nightly build of dotty.

If you want to migrate an existing library, it might be a good idea to start out with the compatibility mode (note that this mode affects typechecking and thus may prevent some valid Dotty code from compiling) by adding to build.sbt:

scalacOptions ++= { if (isDotty.value) Seq("-language:Scala2") else Nil }

Using the isDotty setting ensures that this option will only be set when compiling with Dotty.

A tool to port code from Scala 2.x to Dotty is currently in development at https://github.com/scalacenter/scalafix

If your build contains dependencies that have only been published for Scala 2.x, you may be able to get them to work on Dotty by replacing:

    libraryDependencies += "a" %% "b" % "c"

by:

    libraryDependencies += ("a" %% "b" % "c").withDottyCompat()

This will have no effect when compiling with Scala 2.x, but when compiling with Dotty this will change the cross-version to a Scala 2.x one. This works because Dotty is currently retro-compatible with Scala 2.x.

NOTE: Dotty's retro-compatibility with Scala 2.x will be dropped before Dotty is released, you should not rely on it.

IDE support

Dotty comes built-in with IDE support, to try it out see http://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/usage/ide-support.html

Discuss

Feel free to come chat with us on the Dotty gitter!

regis-leray/dotty-example-project