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eranation
It was a pet project of mine back in 2013 [0]... revived it (with a bit of help from Claude) and made it updated to Scala 3. Feedback welcome!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614130

eviluncle
Very cool, I love Scala and am quite sad that it isn't getting the interest and popularity it should.
btreecat
Instead of being sad, have you considered evaluating why that is?
eviluncle
Would evaluating the reason(s) (a futile endeavor, if you ask me) replace my sadness? Hardly.

It's a beautiful language I enjoy working with, and I'm saddened it isn't used and adopted by more people.

btreecat
The goal isn't to replace, it's to understand so you can grow past it.

If you start from the fact that people haven't adopted it, maybe it's not as beautiful or enjoyable to most developers.

eviluncle
My guy, I am bummed that such a powerful and readable language isn't more popular. I don't need to grow past anything. Being bummed about stuff is part of life.

The reasons it isn't more well adopted are many. The conclusion that therefor it's "not beautiful or enjoyable to most developers" is flawed and baseless. It assumes perfect meritocracy where the most beautiful and enjoyable languages for developers are the most popular ones.

sunshine-o
I used to be very fond of Scala 10-15 years ago.

I also had to move on for professional reasons and haven't kept up for a long time.

I am very surprised that there is not much traction anymore for Scala. I see about 10x more Clojure news or projects on Github so it is not just about the JVM...

Could someone point to why?

Magicrafter13
I had to work with Scala in one class in college and my goodness did I absolutely hate it. I didn't know you could make Java worse, but they found a way.

Nothing against the people making tutorials ofc, I just hated the language.

jjpones
Funnily enough, as someone who absolutely hated my Java classes in college and ending up in a job that made me learn Scala, I just appreciated it as Java but better.
jjpones
Currently running an internal maintenance mode project with a Scala backend. The odd times I'm asked to look at it, I still find the code very beautiful.