Five years ago, Scala seemed like the next big thing in programming languages because it elegantly enabled functional programming within an object-oriented paradigm. Today, Scala’s popularity seems to be fading, with companies like LinkedIn and Yammer moving away from it. The TIOBE index (www.tiobe.com) of software language popularity ranked Scala at #13 in 2012; now it’s fallen to #32 in August 2
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