No, not really.<p>Some people from losing ecosystems like to spin it that way¹, but the truth is people are happy, adoption is great, and companies see that pain-points get addressed.<p>Of course there are companies which drop Scala, but often like in LinkedIn&#x27;s case it&#x27;s not caused by a dissatisfaction with Scala, but new leaders making different decisions like &quot;we are using 10 different languages, we should consolidate on X and Y!&quot;.<p>The last unhappy company which is commonly mentioned is this social-network company Yammer.
That was half a decade ago, and most of the issues mentioned have been addressed in the mean time.
(Yammer has been bought by Microsoft, so it also made some sense to use a language that makes getting bought out easier.)<p>¹ I remember there was some very very bitter Groovy evangelist a while ago.