Yeah, I think with a community as small as Scala's, you can't really afford: a. fragmentation of the ecosystem b. repeated shuttering/abandonment of some of th

Yeah, I think with a community as small as Scala's, you can't really afford: a. fragmentation of the ecosystem b. repeated shuttering/abandonment of some of the most popular options (Lift, Play, Akka) c. splitting the language in two The perception within and without my own employer (which heavily invests in Scala) swapped from "acceptable" to "this ecosystem is a dead-end and we need to get out" with the launch of Scala 3. It's possible they would have reached the same conclusion, but I don't think breaking every industry engineer's development tools for years is a good strategy.