Re: [Haskell-cafe] Scala at position 25 of the Tiobe index, Haskell dropped below 50

Probably this has to do with the popularity of Spark

or Akka, or that there is a choice of IDEs. We have seen candidates with negative Scala experiences, but the trend seems to be to go to Java 8 rather than a different functional language. The negatives seem to relate to speed of compilation (and to some extent execution) and difficulties with debuggers. And that the IDEs, while better than nothing, are not anything like as slick as they are with Java. The extent to which Haskell would be better on any of these things is hard to judge. Runtime and gc is a concern - at least with the JVM you can consider paying for Azul C4.