Dear Community
We from the Scala team at Lightbend have decided to take some time this summer to work on usability improvements that are always falling through the cracks while we're busy working on the hard features of the next Scala release. Here is a summary of our project proposals.
@som-snytt already implemented the JLine 3 upgrade (scala/scala#8036) which gives multi-line history and editing. We are planning to add further improvements (many of them pioneered by Ammonite and/or the Dotty REPL) on top of this, for example syntax highlighting and import library dependencies.