The they have added two additional people to the Scala team over the last few months. Everyone knows they suck at communicating, but I rather care about actions, and the actions I have seen are good.
Are you saying two new compiler engineers were hired by Lightbend?
Because if they're working on Lagom that's a different (mostly Java) story https://github.com/lagom/lagom
Different projects require different approaches. The introduction of the community process added 5 new maintainers and the merge of Slick and FreeSlick caused a lot of activity and contributions, so I'm pretty happy.
> Are you saying two new compiler engineers were hired by Lightbend?
Yes.
> Because if they're working on Lagom that's a different (mostly Java) story https://github.com/lagom/lagom
No.