Keynote: The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War
summary
Scala loses measurable ground: Scala market share 28.4%→21.5% in one year while Kotlin 11%→28.8% so Kotlin and Java feature accretion eat JVM mindshare. Fragmentation risk from Dotty/Scala 3 and an exodus of library authors leaves tooling and standard library rot. Proposed rescue is concrete: prune features, double down on a coherent FP subset, build better tooling and docs, and grow people via a 300 Spartans mentorship and compiler-plugin work that constrains harmful language variants.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:39Scala's declining market share
- 15:12Academic focus and weaknesses
- 28:13False solutions and threats
- 31:44The last hope for Scala
- 44:52Q&A and closing
