[virtualwhys]

and Scala is now his favorite language, interesting stance to take for a previously prominent member of the Haskell community.

[skrebbel]

He's an independent consultant now. I suspect the market for companies willing to consider Scala is a lot bigger.

If you want statically typed functional programming, but also functional programming that stands a chance of adoption in many environments, then Scala is about your only choice.

[eranation]

And Kotlin, and I would dare say Rust.

[skrebbel]

I may be living under a rock, but is Kotlin really used in production a lot?

And Rust? Does anyone dare basing production stuff on Rust like now? With breaking changes all the time?

[TheHydroImpulse]

There's only 3 production deployments of Rust that I know about. It's not recommended to use Rust in production atm.