> Scala is a language of compromises Scala tries to be everything at once, it's hardly a language of compromises. It was successful because when it was created

> Scala is a language of compromises Scala tries to be everything at once, it's hardly a language of compromises. It was successful because when it was created Java sucked and now of course people are stuck with Scala deployments as nobody can decipher all that code. Java still sucks but less that it used to be. It needs type inference for like yesterday. The biggest drawback of the language is the slow toolchain.