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How's the Scala community doing? I had the impression a couple years ago that they were losing momentum. But I also heard that Scala 3 fixed a lot of footguns

• kagakuninja 3y ago
  Scala has lost its hype status, and hype chasers will more likely use Go or Rust. Kotlin has encroached on the "better Java" category (and of course Java is now better). One of the great Scala success stories was Twitter, which has been eviscerated by an impulsive man-child, and their commitment to Scala is in doubt. The community is a bit worried over these developments, and there has been some sniping over the disruption caused by Scala 3 (mainly to projects that relied on macros, even though macros were marked as an experimental feature). IMO Scala is still the best language on the JVM, and last I checked there were plenty of jobs for experienced Scala devs. The foot guns weren't that severe, or at least I am used to them (in my opinion, Java coding has more foot guns due to nulls and mutable state everywhere, YMMV). Scala 3 was more incremental, than radical, and was massively less disruptive than you see with other attempts to clean up a language (Python 3, Perl 6, anything involving PHP) due to good design, careful planning and backwards compatibility options.