but it remains such a beautiful, fun language. i really enjoy #scala3 it's true there are some real tooling hassles (please give me a good emacs mode). you lose time. but you can express things so cleanly and concisely.
there are tensions between what "industry" wants and an impulse to experiment. a lot of us were drawn to scala because it challenges us, keeps us learning. it never wanted to be #golang. i don't think it should try now.
@interfluidity TypeSafe was founded (and I was a founder, but left before the funding round) to make Scala an industry friendly language.
One of the reasons I didn’t stick around was a disagreement around the research vs industry process so companies that adopted Scala (eg Twitter and SAP) could trust the commercial language (tooling, stability, version compatibility, etc.)
Scala is still my favorite language, but I cannot recommend it for commercial use. Sigh.
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