I haven't been paying too much attention to the language development but AFAIK the vast majority of the FP in scala is in libraries (cats/scalaz) and not baked into the language.
Sure the language _has_ higher kinded types and implicits can be twisted to support type classes, but neither of those seems to have been forced in the language from FP fanatics, but rather the language has always included some set of advanced features.
Sure the language _has_ higher kinded types and implicits can be twisted to support type classes, but neither of those seems to have been forced in the language from FP fanatics, but rather the language has always included some set of advanced features.