Background: Typesafe was the primary commercial entity behind the Scala programming language.<p>They&#x27;ve recently rebranded to Lightbend:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lightbend.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;typesafe-changes-name-to-lightbend" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lightbend.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;typesafe-changes-name-to-light...</a><p>This announcement has caused some controversy in the Scala community due to their explicit focus on Java customers, and changing a name that was semantically linked to Scala itself.