As some of you may know, this June the whole Scala plugin team took a break and went to Berlin to enjoy Scala Days 2014, and of course to meet IntelliJ IDEA users! Alexander Podkhalyuzin, a lead developer of the Scala plugin, used this chance to catch Jason Zaugg, a Scala rockstar and developer at Typesafe, and talk about Scala Compiler, Dotty and IntelliJ IDEA. Enjoy the interview! Alexander: How did you first hear about Scala? Jason: A colleague of mine saw Martin Odersky present Scala at a conference in 2008. He shared his impressions of the language at our team’s weekly tech talk, an