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Re:The Origins of Scala (2009) by hocuspocus on Sunday November 30, 2025 @07:53AM (#46096254)
- The resources simply didn't exist, Typesafe couldn't even become profitable doing what Scala does best.

- Scala was a bad fit, especially on low-end and slow Android devices.

- Google doesn't like languages like Scala. They use it for Chisel but it's not a language allowed for backend services, while Kotlin is.

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