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Scala is on its way to die actually, I worked couple of years with lot of services in Scala, they were all replaced by regular Java or C# over the years, Scala

by Thaxll 5y ago

Scala is on its way to die actually, I worked couple of years with lot of services in Scala, they were all replaced by regular Java or C# over the years, Scala missed the train and it's more and more difficult to find people that want to work with that language. It's a stagnant language that will not get more popular, it peaked.

kaba0 5y ago
It just got a huge revamp with Scala 3, please do check it out if you hadn’t yet - it fixes some pain points while has many many exciting features, eg. can be null-safe with a single compiler flag (basically type T will not be able to represent a null, a java method that does return T will have a signature of T | Null). In great hands it can be insanely productive and well-maintainable, but of course I know that giving it to developers that look at the project more as a learning/experimenting thing can cause quite some damage due to the language’s strength.
yawaramin 5y ago
I understand not keeping up with it but 'it's on its way to die' is just spreading FUD. It's more popular than ever. Disney+, Lego, Canada Post, basically every large bank–plenty of people are using it and adoption is increasing.
eweise 5y ago
They just released Scala 3 this this year so hardly stagnant. The community seems to promoting more pragmatic functional approaches recently which I think is going to make Scala much more popular in the future.
bjt 5y ago
> It's a stagnant language that will not get more popular, it peaked. I can't speak to whether it's "stagnant", but at least as a percentage of questions on Stack Overflow, the claim that "it peaked" checks out. The peak for Scala was late 2016. Go surpassed it in 2020. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=scala%2Cgo https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=scala%2Cgo
geodel 5y ago
You are right. Going by Google trends Scala is not only less popular then Go it is further going down when compared to Go [1] 1. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F091hdj,%2Fm%2F09gbxjr https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

by Thaxll 5y ago

kaba0 5y ago

It just got a huge revamp with Scala 3, please do check it out if you hadn’t yet - it fixes some pain points while has many many exciting features, eg. can be null-safe with a single compiler flag (basically type T will not be able to represent a null, a java method that does return T will have a signature of T | Null). In great hands it can be insanely productive and well-maintainable, but of course I know that giving it to developers that look at the project more as a learning/experimenting thing can cause quite some damage due to the language’s strength.

yawaramin 5y ago

I understand not keeping up with it but 'it's on its way to die' is just spreading FUD. It's more popular than ever. Disney+, Lego, Canada Post, basically every large bank–plenty of people are using it and adoption is increasing.

eweise 5y ago

They just released Scala 3 this this year so hardly stagnant. The community seems to promoting more pragmatic functional approaches recently which I think is going to make Scala much more popular in the future.

bjt 5y ago

> It's a stagnant language that will not get more popular, it peaked. I can't speak to whether it's "stagnant", but at least as a percentage of questions on Stack Overflow, the claim that "it peaked" checks out. The peak for Scala was late 2016. Go surpassed it in 2020. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=scala%2Cgo https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=scala%2Cgo

geodel 5y ago

You are right. Going by Google trends Scala is not only less popular then Go it is further going down when compared to Go [1] 1. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F091hdj,%2Fm%2F09gbxjr https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...