&quot;Lightbend&quot; as a name is I think the least interesting part of this announcement.<p>So, Typesafe pivots away from being the company behind Scala to being the company behind the &quot;Reactive Platform (tm)&quot;.<p>I didn&#x27;t understand the motivation at first--they announced they were going to do this a while ago--but this sentence sums it up:<p>&gt; ... with more than half of our customers representing traditional Java enterprises. We continue to evolve, becoming more language agnostic ...<p>I can understand this.  While I always liked the Typesafe brand because of it tech connotation and implicit relation to Scala, if you want to diversify outside of the Scala box, you&#x27;ll have to change the name.<p>As a Scala fan, however, it&#x27;s hard to not see this as a blow to the community.  Having Typesafe behind Scala was one of the major advantages of choosing Scala, and IMHO the primary reason Scala adoption spread wider and faster that Clojure, Haskell et. al.<p>I was hoping the JVM community would coalesce around one post-java language and I was hoping it was Scala.  But now add Kotlin to the mix of Groovy and Clojure, and the future gets murkier.  Especially with the mind-share and great communities around Rust and Go.<p>This is probably a good thing for Typesafe&#x2F;Lightbend, however.  The Scala ecosystem had been tough to monetize.  Putting their full weight behind commercial offerings on top of FOSS foundations seems like a better business strategy.