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> It's going to take a little while for a language like Scala (or any JVM based language) to fully penetrate the market. By a wide margin, the overall consensus in the JVM community seems to be that Scala will probably never be more popular than it is today, which means, it will never become mainstream. Hopefully, one of Ceylon or Kotlin will succeed where Scala failed. With that in mind, Play betting on Scala is qui…
Not saying you're wrong, but says who? Can you point to evidence of this consensus? I'm seriously asking, not trying to challenge you.
It's just that most of the curves have remained flat. Look on job boards, language rankings, github stats, or even the Scala reddit, which is a ghost town.
Taken in isolation, these numbers don't mean much but when you start putting all the evidence together, it's hard to make a case that Scala is growing at all.