As for typed alternatives, there's no substitute for Scala. Maybe Haskell or OCaml if you leave the JVM, but otherwise it's pretty much a language wasteland for anyone that's taken a dip in the ocean of Scala.
> because I'm tired of their shit
heh, think it goes both ways ;-) As an observer none of the powers that be took a liking to you calling them out, justified or not (agree that community contrib takes a back seat to Lightbend/EPFL).
Good luck wherever you've wound up (and thanks for the biased Either contrib in 2.12, finally!)
The best way to avoid being called out for saying completely different things in public and private is not saying different things in public and private.
If me politely asking for clarification about this sudden change of opinion is "underhanded behavior", or "renouncing from future interactions" means "let's find some flimsy pretext to contact your place of work to tell them what an evil person you are" then Scala might have some issues attracting and retaining contributors in the future.
It's also thriving/taking off, tons of contributions from myriad brilliant minds; for this reason I'm not too worried about Scala, it will continue on with or without Lightbend steering the ship.
They won't be able to prevent the language from being run into the ground by SIP/SLIP/SPP committees.
Anyway, getting told that I'm not qualified to tell people that their new language extension ideas tick all the boxes of "bad ideas that we are regretting and deprecating since years" after I have more or less managed deprecations and removals for four major versions of Scala ... I guess they need to find someone else to do my job now.
But given past experience, the people who are eager to add more and more features are seldomly the people who clean up after themselves.
Most upcoming language proposals have extremely poor quality, ignore years of lessons learned, repeat many mistakes of the past, reinvent things that have been tried without success elsewhere and have no respect for design principles that made Scala great.
So glad that my name won't be associated with this.
DOT may have been proven sound, but compilers are complex beasts; implementing DOT while preserving an upgrade path for Scala will likely be both difficult and limiting (since Dotty will inevitably be shackled by Scala's past).
For now we've got Scala though, in a couple of years maybe Dotty.
plus with the upcoming kotlin 1.1 release and vertx's upcoming first class support for kotlin.. it is beginning to build traction on the server side.
what is really exciting is Kotlin scripting. Gradle is the first project to start using it.