>>In particular what are the irreconcilable beliefs on each side that have led to this? I'm not familiar with this one. But in general most of these forks are

>>In particular what are the irreconcilable beliefs on each side that have led to this? I'm not familiar with this one. But in general most of these forks are generally out of personality clashes where one person just refuses to take another as the boss. Scala is still not among the top languages used in the industry. This kind of my way or the highway attitude will only fragment the already fragile ecosystem. Imagine any serious software shop wanting to use Scala reading this. If I want to be writing an enterprise application which I plan to keep running for the next decade, should I be choosing a language which isn't just not widely adopted, but the existing ecosystem itself has forks because a few members don't give two hoots about stability(Which is far more important to 99% of the software shops out there, than adding new features). Instead of doing something like this, and putting your broader community of users in perpetual confusion as to which ecosystem to use, you could rather contribute to something meaningful.