Regarding LinkedIn, they are not moving away from Scala AFAIK. And Yammer was a long time ago. Note that Scala has improved quite a bit since then, especially with the release of 2.12.0 (Java 8 support).
I don't understand why, but there seems to be a lot of negativity aimed towards Scala. It's a solid language backed by the JVM, has great Java interop, and beautifully combines OOP and FP in a way I've never seen in any other language. Also, ScalaJS[1] is absolutely amazing.
Yet every few weeks, you get a blog post detailing why Scala is a failure and how it will be dead in a few years. Seriously, what gives?
I don't understand why, but there seems to be a lot of negativity aimed towards Scala. It's a solid language backed by the JVM, has great Java interop, and beautifully combines OOP and FP in a way I've never seen in any other language. Also, ScalaJS[1] is absolutely amazing.
Yet every few weeks, you get a blog post detailing why Scala is a failure and how it will be dead in a few years. Seriously, what gives?
[1]: https://www.scala-js.org/