Scala's purpose is, at least to me, pretty clear: Functional programming (ranging up to Pure FP) on the JVM with a powerful type system. That's just something

Scala's purpose is, at least to me, pretty clear: Functional programming (ranging up to Pure FP) on the JVM with a powerful type system. That's just something that Java, Kotlin, nor Clojure don't offer. And there is significant demand for Scala (and its pupose) in the industy (it just not may be as huge as Java or other more mainstream languages).