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I don't know, but something tells me that it may take quite a while for Scala to fail in any noticeable way, at least according to google trends it's still the most popular functional language - http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F03j_q%2C%20%2F...

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Well, there's been a rather precipitous drop of late: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F03j_q%2C%20%2F...

Perhaps we can call this the Paul Phillips bashing-Scala-tour effect o_O

Hope Scala 3 addresses current issues with the language, which, if it happens, seems to be at leat 2 years away (i.e. 2.12 next year and possible Scala 3/Dotty in the 2016).

Since C++ is also still used plenty throughout the world, I think he might've meant that it failed to live up to the expectations placed on it as a good balance of structural and functional.

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