No company is trying to sell Scala on its own. Several startups emerged around major open source Scala projects and are doing fine. Lightbend employs core contr

No company is trying to sell Scala on its own. Several startups emerged around major open source Scala projects and are doing fine. Lightbend employs core contributors to the compiler and stdlib. There are also very successful consulting shops around Scala technologies that are contributing where they can. The language and its ecosystem haven't seen anything but growth, I'm not worried.