[noelwelsh]

I don't think this comment reflects reality. A few issues:

* Complaints about tooling and ecosystem were valid maybe 10 years ago, but not now.

* You don't say what your point of comparison is. (weaker than what?)

* Performance has never been an issue for general programming tasks

* You disregard the value that language brings

* Running functional programs on a CPU has not been an issue since, roughly, the 1970s when the basics of compiling FP languages were worked out.

[btreecat]

None of that answered the question of what's the value proposition is, while also missing the point of several criticism.

[noelwelsh]

The Scala value prop is a modern programming language (= safer, more correct code, which implies faster development) + access to the JVM and JS ecosystems (and WASM and Native in more nascent states.)

Given your comment about stateful CPUs I imagine you don't think programming languages are particularly important. Not everyone does, but opinions do differ on that.

> also missing the point of several criticism

I can't correct my misunderstandings if you don't state what they are.