I still think it is a shame that neither Red Hat nor Jet Brains has joined forces with Scala/Typesafe. Both of these companies know how to ship products and make developers happy. This is something that Typesafe has to learn now. On the other hand, Red Hat and Jet Brains need to learn how to do language research... (which may actually be harder, once they go beyond fixing the obvious Java flaws).
As much as I personally like Scala I understand why a lot of people are taking a wait & see attitude. I think it's not too unreasonable to imagine that a less ambitious Java++ like Kotlin might find the traction that has so far eluded Scala.
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I still think it is a shame that neither Red Hat nor Jet Brains has joined forces with Scala/Typesafe. Both of these companies know how to ship products and make developers happy. This is something that Typesafe has to learn now. On the other hand, Red Hat and Jet Brains need to learn how to do language research... (which may actually be harder, once they go beyond fixing the obvious Java flaws).
As much as I personally like Scala I understand why a lot of people are taking a wait & see attitude. I think it's not too unreasonable to imagine that a less ambitious Java++ like Kotlin might find the traction that has so far eluded Scala.