I think it has changed for good. There are also initiatives to simplify Scala (e.g: dotty), and initiatives to go native (e.g: Scala native via LLVM). I think S

I think it has changed for good. There are also initiatives to simplify Scala (e.g: dotty), and initiatives to go native (e.g: Scala native via LLVM). I think Scala has some good potential.