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I think the most cutting criticisms of Scala are the ones that pointed out your exact quote here: "If you wrote a clean new version today, there's a lot you'd

• lmm 11y ago
  > That said, the Scala community seems to be moving away from many of the dumber ideas (mostly along the lines of respecting readability over 'expressiveness'). I don't think it's even that. I mean the symbolic method names are an unfortunate piece of community history that can't die soon enough, but other than that a lot of warts are just failed experiments or things that we now have a better way of doing or even things where a compiler flag gets you the right behaviour but the default is the bad backward-compatible way of doing things - Scala grew organically to reach the point it's at now, and it shows. If anything I think Typesafe/Lightbend listened to the critics too much and put too much effort into backward compatibility. The best thing for the language would be to remove a lot of old features, many of which are barely used in any case. On the plus side they've taken the positive step of modularizing the standard library and moving pieces out of the core.