Yes, let's cite this guy who is "so uninterested in Scala" that he spends an considerable amount of time maintaining multiple user accounts to spread FUD about the langauge in various places and makes up stories about how "his team/group/company/... was trying to use Scala but abandoned it due to all the horrible issues with it".
You know that he is really persistent (despite claiming that he doesn't care about Scala) when the community starts maintaining a list of his sockpuppet accounts.
Anyone who tries to make the claim that "pretty much hardly anyone uses" is standing on shaky ground. It definitely has not surpassed Java in popularity but it seems to be quickly gaining traction at lots of large companies and is being used more and more. I was recently at Scala by the Bay in San Fransisco and it seems each year more and more companies are on board. If LinkedIn, Twitter, PayPal, Cisco, Verizon, and more are all using Scala I would hardly call it a niche language anymore.
There are a few really big and impactful things already implemented in Scala, and some companies may be using it without even actually writing any Scala code (for they provide Java APIs): Play, Kafka, Spark, Akka.
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According to Cedric Beust, it's still a language that "pretty much hardly anyone uses". http://beust.com/weblog/2014/05/11/more-about-language-popul...
Yes, let's cite this guy who is "so uninterested in Scala" that he spends an considerable amount of time maintaining multiple user accounts to spread FUD about the langauge in various places and makes up stories about how "his team/group/company/... was trying to use Scala but abandoned it due to all the horrible issues with it".
You know that he is really persistent (despite claiming that he doesn't care about Scala) when the community starts maintaining a list of his sockpuppet accounts.
Anyone who tries to make the claim that "pretty much hardly anyone uses" is standing on shaky ground. It definitely has not surpassed Java in popularity but it seems to be quickly gaining traction at lots of large companies and is being used more and more. I was recently at Scala by the Bay in San Fransisco and it seems each year more and more companies are on board. If LinkedIn, Twitter, PayPal, Cisco, Verizon, and more are all using Scala I would hardly call it a niche language anymore.
There are a few really big and impactful things already implemented in Scala, and some companies may be using it without even actually writing any Scala code (for they provide Java APIs): Play, Kafka, Spark, Akka.