To my understanding, Go is meant to be a replacement for C, while Scala supposedly would be roughly in the same position on the technology stack as Ruby/ Python

To my understanding, Go is meant to be a replacement for C, while Scala supposedly would be roughly in the same position on the technology stack as Ruby/ Python/ Java (and this is a broad generalization as well). I'm not sure how Go will be competing with either Node or Scala? One of the appealing of Scala for me to start learning it is the functional aspect. Although not too pure, it's "functional enough", and is an actual useful language for working in the industry. Go doesn't even pretend it's functional (which is a good thing of not trying to half-ass stuff), and while interface is a really nice idea, it's just barely OOP as well.