What can make scala more popular?

[Tom_Poczos]

How about this?

Let's have a fresh start by keeping the Dotty name?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21834796 Reading this, it’s apparent that there are some bad past experiences attached to Scala. Also a sad history of many companies noping out of it. Some of it seems to come from how the language and ecosystem have been managed in the past. Maybe a fresh start would not be a bad idea. This question also comes from what we’ve seen wrt. Perl5/Perl6, I think after a long agony now there is a consensus (but fixme) that Perl6 should have been released as Raku…