Is the demand really all that high? As a scala dev myself, when I look around it always seems like the trend is heading in the wrong direction in terms of the job market.
My thoughts exactly. I am at the point of considering switching to another language, because job opportunities with Scala are just abysmal.
Just more anecdata; most of the Scala positions I've seen are data engineering roles with Spark. I need to look harder for Scala roles without Spark.
Initially that was my experience too but over the past 2 years I've found that more and more places are switching to Java or Python for Spark Data Engineering actually, it might only be in my local market though.
Thanks, I will keep that in mind. Additionally, I've been told recently that Scala is losing ground to Go for things not related to data engineering.
Yes I've noticed this too. After a few Scala contract gigs (3 years) I haven't done any Scala in the past year and a half, Java and Python seem to be gaining more ground for new projects, specially in the enterprise or government.