The claim sounded outlandish, but Scala looks indeed to be around the top 10~20 languages in hiring for instance: https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-mos

The claim sounded outlandish, but Scala looks indeed to be around the top 10~20 languages in hiring for instance: https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-programming-languages/ https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog... Scala is only in 0.5% of the scanned job offerings, and is far far behind the major languages in numbers, but I was surprised there's more demand than Rust or even Perl to be honest.