>My latest example of this was learning Scala 5 years ago. Bet on something new, and then you get calls from all over the country to work on it, as most people

>My latest example of this was learning Scala 5 years ago. Bet on something new, and then you get calls from all over the country to work on it, as most people are trying it, but few know what they are actually doing. As a young dev, I really want to learn how to do this. I'm a newcomer to the Scala party, but I can definitely see it becoming a huge player and there are so many reasons - Odersky has basically a team of PhDs at EPFL constantly making awesome stuff for the language and they have made some incredible stuff - TASTY + scala-meta is one of the latest, Scala.JS is another, and really the list goes on and on. But I'm only beginning to clue in on this now. Would've been great if I had jumped in earlier. If you don't mind me asking, how do you learn to pick the right horse? What were the signals for Scala? my guess now is the fact that Odersky was a major contributor to Java and built both a strong technical team and corporate backing, but thats hindsight ofcourse :)