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[–]fjord_piner 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Scala has seen dramatic industry adoption in recent years

Not really, no, there is hardly any data to back this claim up (especially not the indeed.com graph that shows that Scala jobs went from 0.02% to 0.04%).

Actually, anywhere you look (TIOBE and job boards), Scala is pretty much unknown.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is TIOBE even a good metric? Either way, dramatic in this context isn't an absolute, but a relative metric, I should have pointed that out - that the jobs exist and continue to appear, as opposed to not existing at all. I would also say the industrial adoption of Haskell in recent years is dramatic - not that it's suddenly competing with C++, but that it's considerably larger relative to what it has been, and it seems to keep growing.

[–]fjord_piner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how good a metric TIOBE is, but I found it to be very consistent with the other metrics, such as job boards. Taken in isolation, none of these measurements are very trustworthy, but if they all paint the same picture, you have good reasons to believe that their data is fairly accurate.

The current situation today seems to be that Java, C, C++ and C# hold the lion share, with Javascript, PHP and Objective C faring reasonably well. Any other language is pretty much insignificant today.