It's sad - I spent a good 12 years writing Scala every day and it was the ideal language for my brain. Until it wasn't - sbt got too complex for it's own good, everything became "very smart" developers over-using implicit conversions, you couldn't find a project that wasn't an opinion war on cats vs whatever. It collapsed on the weight of it's own smugness.

go and kotlin aren't it, gleam scratches the itch but I can't justify writing code that would impossible to hire for.

scala situation is a real shame.