> Scala's purpose as stated by Odersky is a research experiment in fusing OOP and FP. It's odd that across so many industries companies would adopt an experime

> Scala's purpose as stated by Odersky is a research experiment in fusing OOP and FP. It's odd that across so many industries companies would adopt an experimental language; it's almost as if Scala was a stable, production ready language, a successful one even, and that some people have opinions, well founded or not. > Everyone who gets to be any good at Scala eventually migrates to Haskell or Clojure The number of Scala developers migrating to Haskell far exceeds that of those migrating to Clojure, probably by a factor of 100X. > like C++ and we all know how that turned out. a resounding success? "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." Which of the FP languages at hand do people complain about?[1] [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F091hdj,%2Fm%2F03yb8hb,%2Fm%2F03j_q https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F091hdj,%2F...