You lost me at “misnomered as AI”. Artificial intelligence as a branch of Computer Science is a broad field covering not only LLMs - themselves a sub-branch of Deep Learning - but also Fuzzy Logic, Bayesian Reasoning and other statistical methods.

By any canonical definition; LLMs very much are AI.

Perhaps you meant ‘AGI’ as in Artificial General Intelligence which means ‘human level across every domain’. Or, perhaps you know this and we’re just being snarky about their current capabilities.

AFAIK it’s an excellent language let down by political in-fighting in the ecosystem and subsequent fragmentation of is otherwise ‘standard’ libraries. IMO this kills the language.

Kotlin offers most of what Scala does with a much more solid and supportive ecosystem, it’s the obvious winner in the ecological niche of ‘better JVM languages’, for me.