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Do your know that you have done the impossible and single-handedly revived Scala? It was slowly dying two years ago, with all that Dotty uncertainty and Typesa

Do your know that you have done the impossible and single-handedly revived Scala? It was slowly dying two years ago, with all that Dotty uncertainty and Typesafe->Lightbend transition. Then you came and showed us that Scala can be productively used beyond JVM. A new hope appeared, Scala-native was inspired by your example, and Dotty was upgraded from a purely academic exercise to a viable pragmatic way to Scala 3. The attitude was "if Scala.js guys did it, so can we". So thank you, from me and all Scala hackers out there. Martin owes you a beer. :)

sjrd 9y ago
Thank you for your kind words :) It's always nice to see that one's work is appreciated!
adriaanm 9y ago
> Typesafe->Lightbend transition The renaming never affected the staffing of the Scala team at Lightbend -- we've been doing about 2/3 of core Scala development (major thank you to the community for the other third!) since 2.10 (when I went from post-doc in Martin's lab to the Scala team lead position). In my opinion, it was a good thing that feature development slowed down in Scala 2.x (while Martin pushed the research frontier forward in Dotty), so we could focus on (in no particular order) compiler performance, a new back-end and optimizer, Java 8 support, modularization,...
- atemerev 9y ago
  Yes, it all went in a good way. However, this was a scary time, observing Typesafe (now Lightbend) slowly transforming into a garden variety enterprise Java consulting shop, and watching more and more core platforms like Akka being adapted back to Java... Things look better now. :)
  - adriaanm 9y ago
    Good to hear! I agree :-) It was a necessary transition because we need to keep attracting customers that initially are reluctant to invest in Scala training. We've found our Java APIs to be a potent gateway drug to Scala, with many of our customers who begin with the Java APIs quickly realizing they'll be even more productive with Scala :-)
- AheadOfTime295 9y ago
  Facilitating contributions from the Scala community, what can be improved: [0] https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/5515 https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/5515 [1] https://failex.blogspot.nl/2017/04/why-i-didnt-sign-scala-cla.html https://failex.blogspot.nl/2017/04/why-i-didnt-sign-scala-cl...

sjrd 9y ago

Thank you for your kind words :) It's always nice to see that one's work is appreciated!

adriaanm 9y ago

> Typesafe->Lightbend transition The renaming never affected the staffing of the Scala team at Lightbend -- we've been doing about 2/3 of core Scala development (major thank you to the community for the other third!) since 2.10 (when I went from post-doc in Martin's lab to the Scala team lead position). In my opinion, it was a good thing that feature development slowed down in Scala 2.x (while Martin pushed the research frontier forward in Dotty), so we could focus on (in no particular order) compiler performance, a new back-end and optimizer, Java 8 support, modularization,...

atemerev 9y ago
Yes, it all went in a good way. However, this was a scary time, observing Typesafe (now Lightbend) slowly transforming into a garden variety enterprise Java consulting shop, and watching more and more core platforms like Akka being adapted back to Java... Things look better now. :)
- adriaanm 9y ago
  Good to hear! I agree :-) It was a necessary transition because we need to keep attracting customers that initially are reluctant to invest in Scala training. We've found our Java APIs to be a potent gateway drug to Scala, with many of our customers who begin with the Java APIs quickly realizing they'll be even more productive with Scala :-)
AheadOfTime295 9y ago
Facilitating contributions from the Scala community, what can be improved: [0] https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/5515 https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/5515 [1] https://failex.blogspot.nl/2017/04/why-i-didnt-sign-scala-cla.html https://failex.blogspot.nl/2017/04/why-i-didnt-sign-scala-cl...