Regardless of the outcome of this initiative (which has little chance of succeeding, but best luck to them), this is pretty bad for the Scala ecosystem overall.

Regardless of the outcome of this initiative (which has little chance of succeeding, but best luck to them), this is pretty bad for the Scala ecosystem overall. There's a general lack of confidence from the community toward Scala and Typesafe and this certainly contributes greatly to the general uncertainty about Scala's chances of success.