> But safety is not the only important aspect of a programming language.

That's also part of what I've said.

The point still being: Where you need a safe language there is no way around it, and Scala is still one of the very few options you have at all. Scala is in that regard indispensable.

> I feel that Scala 3 really hurt the community angle

I don't see that.

Everything relevant, besides Spark, is now on Scala 3, and this is already like that since a few years.

But I agree that Scala documentation / references / tutorials are to this very day lacking. This was and still is a real issue, and that's actually a very relevant one. I really hope this gets better with time.

The sub-optimal situation regarding docs does though not prevent people from starting new projects in Scala.

In fact Scala 3 is again ahead of the pack. It provides features not seen so far in any real world language and will almost certainly again pioneer the implementation of new language concepts in the large, as it did already in the past with its pragmatic approach to a OOP / FP fusion.

Just see for yourself what is currently happening:

https://softwaremill.com/understanding-capture-checking-in-s...