> It's a stagnant language that will not get more popular, it peaked.
I can't speak to whether it's "stagnant", but at least as a percentage of questions on Stack Overflow, the claim that "it peaked" checks out. The peak for Scala was late 2016. Go surpassed it in 2020.
You are right. Going by Google trends Scala is not only less popular then Go it is further going down when compared to Go [1]
1. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
It just got a huge revamp with Scala 3, please do check it out if you hadn’t yet - it fixes some pain points while has many many exciting features, eg. can be null-safe with a single compiler flag (basically type T will not be able to represent a null, a java method that does return T will have a signature of T | Null). In great hands it can be insanely productive and well-maintainable, but of course I know that giving it to developers that look at the project more as a learning/experimenting thing can cause quite some damage due to the language’s strength.
They just released Scala 3 this this year so hardly stagnant. The community seems to promoting more pragmatic functional approaches recently which I think is going to make Scala much more popular in the future.
I understand not keeping up with it but 'it's on its way to die' is just spreading FUD. It's more popular than ever. Disney+, Lego, Canada Post, basically every large bank–plenty of people are using it and adoption is increasing.
It's a stagnant language that will not get more popular, it peaked.