Making the compiler we want - flatMap(Oslo) 2016

Slides from my talk at flatMap(Oslo) 2016 on fixing SI-2712.

The slides are online here, but won't make a lot of sense without the video. I've also written up a walkthrough explaining the mechanics of scalac's SBT build as a blog post.

Resources

• Video of the talk.
• The accompanying blog post.
• The pull request.
• Backport to 2.11.8.
• Compiler plugin for 2.11.8 and 2.10.6
• Gitter discussion on typelevel/general.