I love scala, it’s probably my favorite language. It’s one of the most flexible and powerful languages I’ve ever come across. The downside of this is that it very complicated, I wouldn’t consider myself anywhere close to an expert even after developing with it professionally over 5 years. In regards to new projects, I do believe people are using it for new stuff. Both Spark and Akka are very powerful libraries that h…
> Imo, Scala is the most advanced language on the jvm, far outclassing Kotlin, Clojure, and Java in terms of expressiveness. Exactly why I don’t want any new scala code on my team. We don’t need engineers spending three days arguing about pedantic differences in the language because something can be done 8 different ways. And who wants to maintain something in scala that they didn’t write? It’s a nightmare.
I do, just joined a Scala team and i am maintaining multiple services and writing my own.