Yes, around the same time Scala was really big in the London financial sector with Morgan Stanley championing the language. The Guardian's back-end also runs ma

Yes, around the same time Scala was really big in the London financial sector with Morgan Stanley championing the language. The Guardian's back-end also runs mainly on Scala. There were also monthly Hack The Tower all-day Saturday meetups for Scala and Clojure and the turnout for Scala was much higher than for Clojure though both had a decent crowd. The scene is lot less colourful since these days. All we have is Node and Python meetups, ie. boring stodge.