I've been a Scala developer since 2012. Not sure what "taking off" means in the context of programming languages, but for me it's been popular enough since 201

I've been a Scala developer since 2012. Not sure what "taking off" means in the context of programming languages, but for me it's been popular enough since 2012. Several big companies use it and I've introduced Scala (and FP in Scala) at about 3 companies thus far ... it isn't a tough sell if the company is Java-friendly. We also have a great, active community developing libraries. As a shameless plug here are the projects I've been working on: 1. https://monix.io https://monix.io 2. https://github.com/typelevel/cats-effect https://github.com/typelevel/cats-effect Scala is one of the best languages for FP these days. Note I'm not saying that it's perfect. We can certainly improve it and a lot of improvements are coming in Scala 3.