It will be interesting to see how Scala 2->3 goes. The timing is good. After an initial boom, interest in Scala settled back into a smaller niche than expected,

It will be interesting to see how Scala 2->3 goes. The timing is good. After an initial boom, interest in Scala settled back into a smaller niche than expected, and since that happened entirely under Scala 2, it won't be blamed on the transition to 3. The smaller community will be easier to help through the process, and the tooling and compatibility are better thanks to Scala being a statically typed language. Having the example of Python to follow (or not, where appropriate) doesn't hurt, either.