You need to realize that while Scala was in development, there were quite a few languages that were also rapidly gaining in momentum and mind share. Having sai

You need to realize that while Scala was in development, there were quite a few languages that were also rapidly gaining in momentum and mind share. Having said that, while I do see Scala at conferences and in articles, this hardly qualifies as a sign of gaining momentum, and job boards hardly register Scala in the top 50 languages.