If all the Rust people knew how nice Scala 3 as a language is... they would be surprised.
What still isn't great is the ecosystem and the build-tooling compared to Rust (part of it because of the JVM). But just language-wise, it basically has all the goodies of Rust and much more. Ofc. it's easier for Scala to have that because it does not have to balance against zero-overhead abstraction like Rust does.
Still, Scala was hyped at some point (and I find it wasn't justified). But now, the language is actually one if not the best of very-high-level-languages that is used in production and not just academic. It's kind of sad to see, that it does not receive more traction, but it does not have the marketing budget of, say, golang.
What still isn't great is the ecosystem and the build-tooling compared to Rust (part of it because of the JVM). But just language-wise, it basically has all the goodies of Rust and much more. Ofc. it's easier for Scala to have that because it does not have to balance against zero-overhead abstraction like Rust does.
Still, Scala was hyped at some point (and I find it wasn't justified). But now, the language is actually one if not the best of very-high-level-languages that is used in production and not just academic. It's kind of sad to see, that it does not receive more traction, but it does not have the marketing budget of, say, golang.