Scala is doing fine. ;P There's a huge inertia to "strictly wrong, but already existing", so there is a bias to keep maintaining those things. (And there are

Scala is doing fine. ;P There's a huge inertia to "strictly wrong, but already existing", so there is a bias to keep maintaining those things. (And there are - at least - hundreds of thousands of programmers with huge status quo biases. We saw this mostly as C started to lose a lot of ground, finally, to safer languages with infinitely better tooling. It's that too many people put up with bad bad tools, mostly because they prefer very very incremental changes, and mostly those that give them results in "functional requirements".)