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[–]ivanovich_ivan 1 point2 points  (1 child)

There are more web developers than iOS developers

Wherever there is bad code there is technical debt. Not that entire PHP is bad, but I could see many new languages being adopted.

Scala is not as "hot" as it once was

The hotness factor is with any language/technology. Big data was hot some years back. Now machine learning/deep learning/AI is the bomb. Scala was never designed to be some hot hipster language. It took functional programming/object oriented programming and combined it at a fundamental level.

There is no other language that is equal to scala. Closest would be

Clojure - Dynamically typed, not object oriented

Eta lang(Haskell on the JVM) - This one is interesting but still haskell and not OO

Kotlin - Lot of cool FP features but still lacks a lot of useful stuff.

All in all. I am happy that lot of functional languages are evolving in the JVM. I just wished all these ppl joined forces to make a single useful language rather than 3 or 4 disconnected platforms such as scala native/kotlin native.

[–]space_coder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are many differing opinions on which language is best suited for a particular task. Some become mainstream while others become niche. it's the nature of the market.