I enjoyed Scala, but I enjoy F# much more. .NET Core is a healthy cross-plat ecosystem, many of the VSCode/F# tooling issues have been eliminated over the past few years (IntelliJ was really one of the core reasons I preferred Scala), plus Akka.NET has F# bindings. Come on in, the water's warm:
https://fsharp.org/learn/
https://getakka.net/