&gt; At the least you&#x27;d have to be a gambling person with a penchant for long odds to continue with Scala at this point.<p>I attended a (non-scala) meetup recently and got talking to a guy who does consulting in the Scala world. He&#x27;d been to a major conference in the past few weeks and reported that the vibe there was exceedingly bleak, with lots of negativity over the future of the Scala project.<p>One data point, but still...