Golem is a durable workflow platform and can run any wasm.

https://github.com/0xType/0xProto#4-ligatures-that-dont-defo...

I can't recommend 0xProto enough, the only thing I'm sorry about is that I didn't find it sooner :)

https://github.com/gtkx-org/gtkx

React Native Skia allegedly runs on Linux too

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0DsGHMPLUWVy9PjI9jOS...

Are there Clojure libraries that don't use JVM(/JS/...)-specific stuff that works on any Clojure platform/dialect? Can such libraries be used on Jank out of the box? Or do library authors have to do something explicit in their libraries to enable their use in specific platforms/dialects?

https://mill-build.org/mill/comparisons/why-mill.html#_perfo...

Now even Java has cheap threads (Loom).

And Go even has generics. Just 20-ish years later than Java. And it's likely that more features that now Java has will trickle into Go. If Go wants to survive.

All this to say that there is no space in the market for another language which is a stupid simple Algol. Go already occupies that space. And even Go will have to add features developers want/need, if it doesn't want to get cornered out of the market.

It's not only Scala that must evolve.

But one of Scala's strength is versatility. You could use it quite well for all the listed use cases too. With just one language. (Maybe with the exception of system programming -- Scala Native still requires a tracing GC.)

Also, it's worth noting that Scala is more popular/mainstream/supported/has bigger community than Julia, Zig and Elixir / gleam. And if Red Monk is to be trusted, even more than Rust https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/09/12/language-rankings-6-2... That comes with many benefits.

> if you don’t need JVM / Java interop

OpenJDK is also very good, even if it's not a strict requirement to use it. Battle-tested, easily debugable, etc... AOT compilation is possible via GaalVM's native-image.

Or you can try Scala.js or Scala Native (which don't have anything to do with JVM).

Oracle started heavily investing into Java. And Google picked Kotlin as the language for Android.

But Scala hasn't stagnated since. And as the blog post suggest, plans on moving further still. For example, https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/experimental/cc... may be one of the most impactful developments in the language's history.

This is also heavily influenced by the build too you use. Don't use sbt or Maven or Gradle. Use the good stuff. Use Mill.

https://mill-build.org/mill/comparisons/why-mill.html#_perfo...

Or Bleep, if you're feeling more experimental https://bleep.build/ .

But the AOT compilation (native-image) is available in the GPL community variant.

That's not what (at least some) numbers say. Both Scala and Kotlin are 14th.

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/09/12/language-rankings-6-2...

Kotlin may be more popular, but not much. It's nowhere near the mainstream languages like Java, Python, JavaScript, C# or PHP. Not even close to TypeScript.

Yes, Java has been getting a lot of features Scala has had since (more or less) always. But it's a continuing process, and not all such features are yet fully fleshed out and polished in Java.

Also, Java will probably never get many of important features Scala has (or will have). It may not be some esoteric things, like higher-kinded types. But things like meta-programming/macros. Or features which may be advanced from theoretical point of view, but are actually easy from user point of view (because they lead to a simpler code), like Capture Catching.

> Yes, it's a very common one shared by virtually all Scala 3 developers. Stop. At least for a couple of years.

I, for one, think Capture Catching can't arrive soon enough. It will allow us to write much simpler programs, getting an edge over modern Java & co. I'm very much looking forward to it.

Don't use experimental Scala features in production code. They may change or be removed. And they will likely lack support in IDEs. But that is a common sense.

Thankfully not anymore. They got their act together and have been maintaining compatibility since Scala 3.0.0 has been released in May 2021, which is almost 4 years and counting.

https://github.com/scala/scala3/releases/tag/3.0.0

Scala 3.x is to remain compatible for the whole 3.x series (think of semantic versioning). There's no Scala 4 (breaking with Scala 3) in sight.

Also, Scala 3 and Scala 2.13 JARs are also compatible with each other, which helped with the transition.

> 2) The tooling around it is not the best

sbt may not be good. But Mill is much better than either Maven or Gradle. Especially Gradle. Bleep is also promising.

Scalafmt is widely used and liked. Scalafix -- the linter/fixer -- is used a bit less, but still of a good quality.

* Immutable/persistent collections in standard library

* Machinery to "modify" immutable deeply nested case classes/sealed traits. You have the copy method, you have lens libraries. Very easy and comfortable to use.

* Expression oriented. if/try/etc expression can be bound to a variable

* less characters to write the same idea/program, while not losing readability

* better tooling: Scalafmt is ubiquitously used, supported in IntelliJ and is very good. Scalafix (a linter which can also fix some issues automatically) is used a little bit less, but is also good.

* build tools: while I don't like sbt, Mill is a so much better build tool than Maven or, even worse, Gradle. Then there is also scala-cli, which is not a build tool, but can work like it, if you have a simple, single-module project (i.e. no sub-projects/sub-modules).

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...