[adriaanm]

None of this makes any sense to me (except that these unfounded claims are not charitable). Lightbend (my employer) builds our whole platform in Scala, and we are proud to say you'll have the best experience using it from Scala (though Java 8 will do too, if that's more your jam). Sure, we make some money from training, but we are far more interested in having as many people use Scala so that they'll be even more productive using our platform.

My team at Lightbend is responsible the majority of the Scala 2.x compiler and standard library work. That's our focus. We do try to help out on the documentation front over at https://github.com/scala/scala-lang. You can easily see for yourself that 90% of the PRs there get merged.

Don't boo -- submit a PR!