The Death of Hype: What's Next for Scala

(2020)*

Scala is an excellent language. At the same time, its competitors are good enough and already far more popular. Worse, its biggest one (Java) has adopted over last decade many features, dismissing Scala's strongest suit, being a better JVM language (and with Kotlin in the picture, backed by Android, that advantage is nearly gone). Scala.js/Native though may allow a nice new goal, one language everywhere.

* Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22830779. Article predates Scale 3 release (2021), a transition worse than Python v2->v3 (though not Perl/Raku level), as years later adoption remains low and some people actually have disdain towards it.