> Scala is really an object-oriented language, first and foremost You're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. Scala is not based on the Lamb

> Scala is really an object-oriented language, first and foremost You're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. Scala is not based on the Lambda calculus. The DOT calculus (which is what Scala is theoretically built upon) is based on objects. Yet, at the same time > please do not judge functional programming based on how it looks in Scala based on my research into the labour market, I would guess that Scala is the programming language where most of the Functional Programming takes place, both in the general sense and also in the Pure FP sense. It is more widely used than Haskell, F#, Clojure, Elixir, Erlang, OCaml, Racket, etc. And it works rather nicely in my opinion. There are still areas that I'd like to see improved, of course, like the for-comprehension, but I'm already quite content. > effects to be controlled, checked and reasoned about Definitely! We have so called Functional Effect System libraries for that in Scala. Not just one, but two: Cats Effect and ZIO. Check them out. I would recommend anybody using Scala do use either of those.