[isjustintime]

I liked Scala and was excited about learning and using it when it was picking up steam many years back. Unfortunately, it felt like there wasn't as much traction, and Scala has been siloed into some niche domains like Spark. It's a bummer since it's so nice to write with.

[manojlds]

My favourite was always Akka Streams. I loved working with it so much.

[drewhk]

This warms my heart in an otherwise bland day :)

[margorczynski]

+1, it's an amazing library. Actors is also great along with the rest of the Akka stack. Shame what LB did to it.

[sideeffffect]

I think it's actually used more to develop more or less ordinary backends. Or some tools/frameworks like Spark or Akka/Pekko.

But you can (and people mostly do) use Spark from Python. And Akka/Pekko from Java (but I'm not sure how that is common).

And the job market is there:

https://functional.works-hub.com/jobs/?remote=true&tags=scal...

https://scalajobs.com/locations/remote/

https://remoteok.com/remote-scala-jobs

https://betterremotejobs.com/search?title=scala

https://readytotouch.com/organizers/scala/vacancies?remote=1

https://www.levels.fyi/jobs?searchText=Scala&workArrangement...

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/search/jobs?keyword=Scala&lo...

https://discord.com/channels/629491597070827530/629546253381...

https://discord.com/channels/632277896739946517/840255868096...

[okr]

Yeah, spark was for me the reason to learn spark, as the Java Api was annoying.

But i do not like to see switch between java and scala and these days also kotlin. Syntax model switches in my head drive me nuts. :))