I think those that are upset about a realistic look at their favorite language should read through to the end. He goes into a lot of the benefit of functional

I think those that are upset about a realistic look at their favorite language should read through to the end. He goes into a lot of the benefit of functional programming and Scala over java. It certainly doesn't deserved to be flagged. The TIOBE index shows a pretty clear rise and fall for Scala in terms of relative popularity (#13 in 2012 to #32 in 2016). Here is the last bit of the article: > Scala will probably never become the next big programming language. But, it will be around for years to come as the language of choice for niche problem domains such as Big Data programming. EDIT: Thank you dsabanin and sndean for the clarification. The flag is justified -- his data is definitely faulty. There was no rise of scala to #13 in 2012 (I looked through a few other months of TIOBE too). It looks like it has been steadily rising. It is unfortunate, most of the article (excluding the clickbait hook) is about the benefits of functional programming (like Scala).