Between the "scripty" GC agility of Golang and all the impressive low level benefits that Rust is enjoying from folding memory management into the type system,

Between the "scripty" GC agility of Golang and all the impressive low level benefits that Rust is enjoying from folding memory management into the type system, I suspect that Scala native will be a difficult sell. On the other hand, the new targets (js and native) might make Scala more interesting to Java pragmatists who don't care much about going functional but would not mind writing Java in a more streamlined syntax.