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Ah, got it. So it’s not to much that Scala went away, as that Java became Scala?
by kstrauser 2y ago
Ah, got it. So it’s not to much that Scala went away, as that Java became Scala?
- valenterry 2y agoNo, not at all. It's just that Scala was hyped at a time and now it is a mature and stable language and hence "boring". How often you hear of a language online does not reflect how much it is actually used. Nor does it reflect on how good the language is.
- vips7L 2y agoIn my opinion, the people who went to use Scala were in two categories: people who wanted functional programming on the JVM and people who just wanted a better Java. As Java progressed and Kotlin launched the people that wanted a better Java either stuck with Java or moved to Kotlin. Personally, I think Scala is a fantastic language, but it's had breaking changes, a functional only ecosystem, Java -> Scala interoperability is HARD, and the language is complex. Now there is Scala 3 and there are more breaking changes and the tooling landscape hasn't caught up.