There's a lot of players involved in the Scala OSS drama. You can read about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/9a11p1/newbie_wonder...
Suffice to say there's a lot of people at each others' throats, and it probably won't get better.
Suffice to say there's a lot of people at each others' throats, and it probably won't get better.
Hell the worst thing the Scala Discord deals with it are spambots!
There are (recent) threads out there on the interwebs were people suggest using Cats Effect or ZIO(or as a better Python) without it being hateful. And there are enough people not going at each other because of some effect library.
I am not saying everything is good, there is enough room for improvement, but I feel like you have an outdated view of the Scala ecosystem. For example "ecosystem firmly split between ZIO and Cats" doesn't ring true either, there are tools/libraries like, scala-cli and Mill or tapir coming out that offer a more pragmatic experience, without locking you down to the pure FP dogmatism.
> a prominent "middle ground" member of the community disappeared after accusations that he was a sexual abuser
Yes, this stirred up a lot of controversy and I found this indeed a failure of the Scala community, I don't think that means things haven't gotten better though.