What a bull* article. There is a lot of Scala traction even in the big enterprises. What is sure is that Java lost a lot of ground with Oracle at the driving wheel.
Is there any data that shows that? I mean, Tiobe index has Java as the #1 most used language this year.
Any stats on Java losing ground? Java 8 is awesome with Lambda, Streams and Completable futures (Promises).
But it definitely isn't anywhere near as functional as Scala, which this article completely misses. Seems like the author basically does not even know what functional programming is.