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Yes, it all went in a good way. However, this was a scary time, observing Typesafe (now Lightbend) slowly transforming into a garden variety enterprise Java consulting shop, and watching more and more core platforms like Akka being adapted back to Java...

Things look better now. :)

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Good to hear! I agree :-)

It was a necessary transition because we need to keep attracting customers that initially are reluctant to invest in Scala training. We've found our Java APIs to be a potent gateway drug to Scala, with many of our customers who begin with the Java APIs quickly realizing they'll be even more productive with Scala :-)

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