I find this work interesting not just for Scala, but for all languages that are attempting to fuse OOP, FP, and static typing. And at the moment, that seems to

I find this work interesting not just for Scala, but for all languages that are attempting to fuse OOP, FP, and static typing. And at the moment, that seems to be a lot of languages, especially if you count the efforts to bring gradual typing to traditionally dynamic languages.