- The resources simply didn't exist, Typesafe couldn't even become profitable doing what Scala does best. - Scala was a bad fit, especially on low-end and slow

- The resources simply didn't exist, Typesafe couldn't even become profitable doing what Scala does best. - Scala was a bad fit, especially on low-end and slow Android devices. - Google doesn't like languages like Scala. They use it for Chisel but it's not a language allowed for backend services, while Kotlin is.