[djsumdog]

I was part of a startup where I wrote all our server stuff in Scala. It was just three of us to start and I was the only dev. As we added more people, no one wanted to touch the Scala code.

I tried everything. I made some nice Java interfaces so they could write plugins; exposed all the data they needed, wrote a bunch of documentation, had a learning session. No one contributed a damn thing.

They started firing people after I had already left for Australia and was working remotely. They kept me on while secretly having a former Amazon person rewrite my entire service in Java. Good thing I explicitly asked for the whole thing to be kept GPL prior to the contract.

Last year I got hired into a team that does the majority of their work in Scala. It's been a great experience.