My thoughts exactly. Scala seems to be the JVM language gaining the most traction at the moment. The JVM is an extremely impressive piece of engineering. Very reliable, great tooling and it's the fastest VM out there for any language.
After 17 years of Java the language many Java devs. have built up skills around the JVM and java class libraries. Many of us are now looking for a more modern language which lets us leverage our existing knowledge. Scala + friends are pretty hard to ignore these days.
> Very reliable, great tooling and it's the fastest VM out there for any language.
The JVM also has a very rich open source ecosystem. If your language-of-choice runs on the JVM, very likely you can leverage any Java-based library right out of the box.
After 17 years of Java the language many Java devs. have built up skills around the JVM and java class libraries. Many of us are now looking for a more modern language which lets us leverage our existing knowledge. Scala + friends are pretty hard to ignore these days.