[albertcardona]

"A functional, object-oriented programming language based on Java and .NET, Scala includes some constructs for parallelisation from the outset."

"The goal is to overcome the challenges of parallel programming, [...]"

I hope they copy clojure to death. Clojure got parallel programming constructs right--the first language to make parallel programming trivial (think of pmap).

(AFAIK clojure's PersistentMap has already been ported to scala.)