I want to like Scala and Akka, but they just seem to get used very little in the “real world”. I recall some HN comments complaining about how a lot of the Scal

I want to like Scala and Akka, but they just seem to get used very little in the “real world”. I recall some HN comments complaining about how a lot of the Scala they were writing for Spark was more or less a series of procedural API calls rather than using the language to its potential.