alt Hacker News> Scala is comparable in popularity to Go or Rust
Do you have any numbers to back you up? That statement sounds very, very wrong to me
> Scala is comparable in popularity to Go or Rust
Do you have any numbers to back you up? That statement sounds very, very wrong to me
Not good ones, and Scala devs are keenly aware they have been going in the wrong direction compared to Go/Rust, in part because of articles like this.
RedMonk shows Scala is comparable to Go and Rust [0] You can see in this chart which plots the number of projects on Github and tags on StackOverflow (ha ha.)
The upper right most cluster has the most popular languages (C++, Java, Python, JS, PHP, TypeScript) then the next cluster has Scala with Rust, Go, Kotlin, R, Swift, etc... That cluster is clearly separate from the next less popular one which has Haskell, Lua, Ocaml, Groovy, Erlang, Fortran, etc... and then you can see the long tail is a big cluster covering the entire lower left half of the chat with a clear gap between it and the upper right half.
I don't think it is a "very, very wrong" statement.
[0] https://redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2025/06/lang.rank_.125.wm_... which comes from https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/18/language-rankings-1-2...