Scala gets a lot of bad press sometimes. This article provides insights from a company that uses it for years to run a business and is very happy with it.
It provides an opinion of select engineers of that company, not insights or even general opinion of engineers. I work with Scala, I understand it very well, but I would still prefer to use a different language. Nevertheless, a vocal group of engineers at my company will always keep all criticism down to a minimum.
Even in this post lots of points are invalid and/or survivorship bias. Scala 3.3 recently introduced a breaking change in their type resolution (fortunately we don't use Scala 3), cats-effect migration is painful and drags on for a long time (years), sbt is slow and hard to understand.
Does it? I thought the issue is that people who just wanted a "better Java than Java" went to Kotlin after first using Scala, But those people who liked the functional aspects stuck with Scala.
Even in this post lots of points are invalid and/or survivorship bias. Scala 3.3 recently introduced a breaking change in their type resolution (fortunately we don't use Scala 3), cats-effect migration is painful and drags on for a long time (years), sbt is slow and hard to understand.