Scala in 2018 - The State of Developer Ecosystem by JetBrains - section: Which frameworks / libraries do you regularly use? (%)
- Akka: 47 %
- Spark: 42 %
They are the two most used libraries in Scala world.
Also there’s a prevalent opinion that Apache Spark is the cause of a big influx of Scala programmers. Scala authors already made a favor to Apache Spark developers by not changing a feature of Scala that is often used in Spark world: Proposal to deprecate and remove symbol literals