[aki237]

I don't fully agree with your statement. We had used Scala around the time the devs were playing around with dotty. I loved many features of the language (compile times were painful, but the language itself was fun). But we had to stay back because a specific db dependency did not resolve well with later versions of Scala (2.13 it broke).

Similar thing recently, there was an obscure Scala version mismatch error when trying to use it with spark. (Not that significant of a problem).

It is definitely a headache trying to cope with the conditions till we get better especially with smaller teams who can't afford to fork and maintain something. A