John,

Good that you ask. There are two reasons.

First, my personal goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the Scala
language (building the translator does force me to think about Scala
semantics). Second, some very smart GWT users have tried  a number of
approaches [1] without decisive success. So the problem appears
interesting and its solution may be useful.

This project does not aim to enthrone the bytecode generator, nor to
achieve binary compatibility with the resulting .class files. So in
this sense, yes, the "user base" one can anticipate for my translator
is (way) smaller than for the Scala compiler. But still, it's not only
for fun :-)


[1] Discussion at GWT Contributors,
http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit-contributors/search?group=google-web-toolkit-contributors&q=scala

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