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by still_grokking 1316 days ago
Of course it depends on whom you ask.

But at least the usual programming language rankings would suggest that Scala is quite mainstream by now.

We have it currently at place 15 on RedMonk, place 15 on the IEEE Spectrum ranking, place 19 on PYPL; whereas Haskell does not show up in the Top20 anywhere there.

Also Scala job opportunities and salaries are quite good when looking at the IEEE and Stackoverflow surveys, ranking quite a bit ahead of Haskell.

I would say Scala is pretty much a mainstream language. There's not much room in the Top20 given there are hundreds of languages out there.