You are right: Scala is a wonderful language crushed by its culture. Not only the DSL love. And then there's the in-language tribalism. You find people that wo

You are right: Scala is a wonderful language crushed by its culture. Not only the DSL love. And then there's the in-language tribalism. You find people that work/worked in Twitter, that tell you that anything that Typesafe, the company that does most of the development of the language, is not worth using: They have their own stack for everything. Then, you have the Scalaz tribe: They also dislike the standard library, along with the Twitter libraries. And now we have TypeLevel, which splinters from the scalaz group. You don't have one camp: you at least have three or four, and having talked to prominent members of each of those subcultures, good luck ever getting them to try to unify anything: There is much intra tribe hate in public, and it gets even nastier when they are in private. Having worked with people from each tribe at one point or another, I think that the situation is pretty hopeless, and the community knows it. The best way for Scala programmers to bond is to hate on a tribe that neither of them belongs to! Just look at the two keynotes in Scala exchange 2015: One by Jessica Kerr, the other by Miles Sabin. Two people that come from very different backgrounds, writing very different code (business scala vs shapeless). But what both were talking about was how far the community has to go to make the language more approachable. And yet, I am pretty sure that the code Miles finds approachable, Jess would find completely unapproachable, while Miles might hate on how Jess doesn't really use enough types. It's a very unfortunate problem.