Your 2nd point will stop being true very soon. Scala 3 will apparently be coming out sometime this fall (https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2020/09/15/scala-3-the-

Your 2nd point will stop being true very soon. Scala 3 will apparently be coming out sometime this fall (https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2020/09/15/scala-3-the-community-powered-release.html https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2020/09/15/scala-3-the-commu...), and the compiler will be the Dotty compiler. Dotty is bootstrapped (https://dotty.epfl.ch/blog/2019/05/23/15th-dotty-milestone-release.html https://dotty.epfl.ch/blog/2019/05/23/15th-dotty-milestone-r...). The first point is true, but IMO not a big deal for most applications. Scala native exists, but is very immature. Still, if you’re writing web services, data processing jobs, etc., I don’t see much of an issue with depending on the JVM. Definitely an issue with things like command line tools, or apps with super tight resource requirements, but that’s not the case for a tonne of software.