Fresh Insights Straight from Scala Days 2026

**Where is Scala heading next?**

Scala Meetup New York: Fresh Insights Straight from Scala Days 2026

Join us in New York for a special Scala community meetup, proudly sponsored by [Virtus

Lab](https://virtuslab.com/expertise/scala), as we bring the biggest conversations and fresh perspectives straight from Scala Days Berlin 2026 to NYC.

We’ll dig into the questions that actually matter for Scala’s future:

* What does Scala look like in the age of AI? Can its type system, functional programming foundations, and JVM ecosystem give it an edge in the new AI-native software landscape?

* Scala 2 → Scala 3: are we finally there? What have we learned from real-world migrations, what’s still holding teams back, and when does staying on Scala 2 become the bigger risk?

* Is Scala growing, evolving or slowly disappearing? Let’s look beyond the hot takes and talk honestly about adoption, the health of the ecosystem, the community, and where Scala can still win.

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