sameei

Dear friend, I don't know about your experience on the industry, specially with Scala. My experience on working with the language for more than 4 years and being responsible for more than 15 components written in Scala, wasn't delightful. I'm still maintaining some components in Scala, and I have a clear picture of it means. Hope you'll have more successful experience with it.

> Finally, a side note about OSS. I don't think it's fair to expect anybody to maintain any kind of library in any language for free

True! but why Spark & Flink, which are backed with business, didn't bother themselves to catch up with changes in Scala! they delayed their upgrade to 2.12, not mention 2.13! and as far as I know the 3.0 hasn't been discussed yet! Am I right?

In general I'm happy and thankful that I learned Scala! it shaped my perspective to combine programming paradigms and pick best practices from each one rather than sticking to a single paradigm. But for work that I wanna last long enough, I can't accept it, as there is no realm of calmness in view. Software Industry is a young industry and complex, like any other profession, and a developer need to think about lots of other things as well, not just the language and possible pattern/syntaxes it has to keep up with!

I think the value that Scala brings into industry is what that prevents it from becoming the rival to others.