Our company is still on 2.13 and probably will be for a long time. The reality is that we need rock-solid library support across all transitive dependencies, and mature battle-tested tooling.
I like that the Scala language continues to improve, but its appeal in real-world enterprise applications took a hammering due to the backwards-incompatible changes in Scala 3, shaky tooling and ecosystem issues.
Also the elephant in the room - the Scala Center and toxicity within the Scala community.
The Scala Center Executive Director is a political sciences graduate with no commercial Scala experience, who gave this expletive-laden sexualised rant at a Scala conference:
When this ugly performance was called out by a member of the Scala ecosystem, it was the guy that called it out that got brigaded and cancelled, while the executive director Darja Jovanovic was defended by the community, and remains in place.
And then there's Scala Center Community Representative Zainab Ali, who led an orchestrated witch hunt against a contributor to the Scala ecosystem. She ended up in the UK High Court for her role in this, and admitted fault (defamation) and settled.
Organizational political drama is just about the least relevant thing possible to whether you update from Scala 2 to Scala 3. The ultimate fate of Jon Pretty does not impact the behavior of macro annotations.
"whoever it is I challenge that person to grow some fucking male anatomy and come and speak to me ... you little female anatomy plural you are just fucked up"
Fairly shocking language but also pretty devoid of context although I come to suspect it has to do with people talking behind her back regarding the second part.
The second case appears to be a fellow who was publicly libeled professionally ruined and then sued the shit out of the offender. According to him this was solely because he had dumped community rep. In the settlement they admitted that they had circulated the letter claiming he was a serial sexual harasser based on no evidence but unverified claims. Settled for a rather paltry sum of £5000.
So community rep and contributor split for whatever reasons and then she shit talks him spreading possibly true likely untrue claims that he's a particular type of jerk which she likely can't back up with anything like evidence other than her own now terminated relationship.
If they didn't fire her they probably believe that she was in the right but settled.
No part of this probably belonged as part of professional life and should have stayed between them. I don't believe enough evidence exists for people who don't know either party to declare anyone a villain and if I had any professional involvement with either I would simply pretend none of that existed and move on.
If I was merely using the code I would definitely ignore it.
This sort of behaviour is so pervasive among certain influential circles, which makes it hard to ignore. Thankfully, the conflict seems to have died down a bit in the last 2 years and I'm looking forward to changes in Scala 3 that make the libraries that those people develop mostly superfluous.
Our company is still on 2.13 and probably will be for a long time. The reality is that we need rock-solid library support across all transitive dependencies, and mature battle-tested tooling.
I like that the Scala language continues to improve, but its appeal in real-world enterprise applications took a hammering due to the backwards-incompatible changes in Scala 3, shaky tooling and ecosystem issues.
Also the elephant in the room - the Scala Center and toxicity within the Scala community.
The Scala Center Executive Director is a political sciences graduate with no commercial Scala experience, who gave this expletive-laden sexualised rant at a Scala conference:
https://x.com/jdegoes/status/1633888998434193411?s=46&t=V_LF...
When this ugly performance was called out by a member of the Scala ecosystem, it was the guy that called it out that got brigaded and cancelled, while the executive director Darja Jovanovic was defended by the community, and remains in place.
And then there's Scala Center Community Representative Zainab Ali, who led an orchestrated witch hunt against a contributor to the Scala ecosystem. She ended up in the UK High Court for her role in this, and admitted fault (defamation) and settled.
https://pretty.direct/statement
Like the executive director, the community rep remains in place at Scala Center:
https://www.scala-lang.org/ambassadors/