Odersky writes a good post about the kitchen-sink aspects that a lot of people complain about vs java: http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/T

Odersky writes a good post about the kitchen-sink aspects that a lot of people complain about vs java: http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/The-right-tool-td2220305.html#a2222101 http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/The-... Having used Scala for a lot of side projects, the only thing that seems kitchen-sinky to me is native XML support.