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I agree with you that they are just 2 very different language in philosophy and usage. To my mind Go is about boring technology used to make interesting and ver

• lmm 11y ago
  > To my mind Go is about boring technology used to make interesting and very popular products while Scala is about exploring cutting edge in PL theory. I would strongly disagree with the implication that Scala isn't used to make interesting or popular products (e.g. Spark or twitter), or indeed that it's "exploring" anything "cutting-edge"; it is very much a production-quality language (backed by theory sure, but theory that's been established for decades now), and I don't see that it contains anything more novel or experimental than e.g. Go's concurrency model. It's a decent platform for doing research in, but that's mostly just a question of being a good language. > One can see most work on Scala in git commits is done either by few people at a research institute(EPFL) or at a consulting company(lightbend) whereas Go has quite varied committer profiles and there are far more committers. We're talking about a factor of 2-3 in number of committers, not that I have any idea what that number is supposed to tell anyone. Certainly Scala has substantial industrial support and a wide base of contributors.