What are the benefits of using Scala in .Net?

Scala on .NET is an ongoing effort led by Miguel Garcia. Latest state is that we are almost able to bootstrap on .NET. I have no doubts that something solid will come out of this but it's still too early to make commitments when.

Long term, I do not see Scala as a competitor to F# or C#. It would be hard to compete on an equal footing with languages that are natively suppported by Microsoft. On the other hand, I do see some attraction of Scala for shops that want to run on .NET as well as on the JVM.

Most of the web search hits I see from "Scala .NET" are from 2008 or early 2009. Scala is an interesting language, but my admittedly-ill-informed impression is that is is not a "viable alternative" for an industrial-strength .NET application.

I see people talk in passing about writing apps that are portable across CLR and JVM, and it's a nice idea in theory, but in practice I don't see any evidence that anyone has done this for reals. (If people do know of examples, please post them.)

I really love Scala but in the current state of its .NET implementation: A Big NO. It hasn't been updated in a while. The JVM version is really a lot ahead. I don't see Scala's .NET port maturing enough to match its JVM counterpart in a foreseeable future.

You'd be better off with F#.