Because all the other languages mentioned are better only from very specific perspectives. Scala&#x27;s strength is precisely that it&#x27;s a mutt: Want to write imperative code? Sure. Functional? No problem. How about a type system that far more featureful than Go? That works too.<p>Scala gets a bad rap precisely because people are big fans of their own way of writing code, call it better, and think that anyone that wants something else is deluded. The Scala way is to say &#x27;sure, you can do that too, to hell with purity&#x27;. I&#x27;d rather have power over purity any day.