The recent focus on Akka is in line with Lightbend securing a 25MM funding round last year, and the ensuing layoffs of Scala engineers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22842166

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Please note: the official site of Scala 3 is scala-lang.org

For Pure FP there's scala3.com

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If this Principle of Least Power had been applied to sbt, what would have been the result? Compilation times depend on scalac and not so much sbt.

Perhaps Scala adoption would be higher today. Assuming no competitors (Kotlin) had gained momentum.

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The maintainer of Slick was in the last round of layoffs at Lightbend. Not sure who maintains Slick these days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22854494

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And the story goes on: upgrading Spark to Scala 2.13 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-25075

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Scala 3 supports braceless syntax, aka significant indentation, aka "YAML is to JSON as Scala 3 is to Scala 2"

https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/other-new-features/inde...

There was quite some debate on this, going on strong.

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Scala 3 making progress is great, just like progress on the Scala 2.13 camp:

Scala on Track to Support Java 9 Module System https://github.com/scala/scala-dev/issues/529

Scala 2.13 on track to support Spark https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-25075