I write Scala code for a living. Scala may not be the best language at anything but it’s extremely good at everything. It’s extremely versatile and easy to fall in love with. It’s really unopinionated and has a number of sub-ecosystems that are super cool but it makes it hard for newcomers to navigate it. It attracts passionate and clever people, but as a result comes with a (rightful) reputation of being hard/expensive to hire for.

Its curse is that it’s the most niche mainstream language, or the most mainstream niche language.

Scala can also be compiled to JavaScript with really good interop with JS libraries, and to native with decent interop with C

Oh, the old “I know somebody with X so everybody with X is the same” …

It’s a game controller. Discord was initially built for gamers.

I’m obsessively punctual, but my file system is like the chair… and I’m a software engineer …