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Add Scala Native 0.1 announcement blog post

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+layout: blog
+post-type: blog
+by: Denys Shabalin
+title: "Scala Native v0.1 is here!"
+---
+
+We're excited to announce the first release of
+[Scala Native](http://www.scala-native.org), an optimising ahead-of-time
+compiler for Scala built on top of the [LLVM](http://llvm.org) compiler
+infrastructure.
+
+Unlike the reference implementation of Scala which generates bytecode that
+runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine, Scala Native toolchain produces
+stand-alone native executables. This opens the door for Scala to be used in
+environments where full-blown virtual machine is usually an overkill:
+command-line tools, resource-constrained hardware applications, video games etc.
+
+To achieve this goal we've developed a whole-program optimising compiler
+that generates [LLVM intermediate representation](
+http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html). This representation is then
+used to generate efficient platform-dependant machine code.
+
+The project has reached a point of feature completeness in terms of the
+coverage of the Scala language. We support the whole language including
+the more advanced features such as method dispatch via structural types and
+even macros.
+
+## What's included
+
+Here are some of the exciting features that got into 0.1:
+
+* Support for the whole Scala language with negligible semantic differences
+* Effortless zero-cost interoperability with native code
+* Out-of-the-box support for existing Scala IDEs
+* Seamless integration with sbt build tool
+* Cross-publishing infrastructure against JVM, JS and Native platforms
+* Support for the core subset of the JDK base libraries
+
+More information is available on our
+[website](http://www.scala-native.org).
+
+## Road ahead
+
+A list of known issues and upcoming features is available via
+[GitHub issues](https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/issues).
+
+## Brought to you by
+
+This project is brought to you by collaboration of [LAMP](http://lamp.epfl.ch)
+and [Scala Center](https://scala.epfl.ch).