I don't see a future for Scala. Since Java got lambdas and var, enough of the pain is gone that Scala ends up adding its own pain. And now there's Kotlin if you really want to avoid boilerplate and not deal with sbt.
Clojure is actually designed as a functional language and not as multi-paradigm as Scala.
Clojure is actually designed as a functional language and not as multi-paradigm as Scala.