Summer of Usability

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Please add another round-table, to continue @jvican’s thread

Towards better error messages in Scalac

In this topic I’d like to discuss concrete ideas to get better error message reporting into Scalac. @SethTisue has told me the Scala team at Lightbend is looking forward to getting this contribution from the Community, and so I’d like to gauge some feedback on this front. I believe there is consensus at both the Scala Center and Lightbend about the importance of this feature. For example, @adriaanm has briefly talked about it as one of the goals for Scala 2.13. As this topic has recently been …