"The language is the code's biggest API" -- my own words.
Breaking that API will result in a new language.
Scala, like several other languages (JS, PHP, Perl), has had very little time to iterate on it's syntax before it got widely used. All these languages want/need to make breaking changes to their syntax, at which point they are at risk of becoming fragmented.
Python3 was not even so much different, still it was (and still is) a hard upgrade for the community.
I really hope Scala manages though, it's the largest FP-on-JVM community I guess, so good luck!
Breaking that API will result in a new language.
Scala, like several other languages (JS, PHP, Perl), has had very little time to iterate on it's syntax before it got widely used. All these languages want/need to make breaking changes to their syntax, at which point they are at risk of becoming fragmented.
Python3 was not even so much different, still it was (and still is) a hard upgrade for the community.
I really hope Scala manages though, it's the largest FP-on-JVM community I guess, so good luck!