The thing is, in Scala you can do really crazy and complicated stuff (see Shapeless, Cats, etc) that in other languages (with exceptions, of course) would be ex

The thing is, in Scala you can do really crazy and complicated stuff (see Shapeless, Cats, etc) that in other languages (with exceptions, of course) would be extremely hard or downright impossible. In Scala, it is just hard, but doable, but implies code being hard to read because what you are doing _is_ hard. This does not detract from doing as much as you can to make it readable, but sometimes it is impossible, or at least impossible to someone not used to it. I'm not good enough with Scala to understand some of it (yet, I hope) but this is something that is bugging me lately. Some things (in general, I'm not talking just about programming here) are hard. No matter how much sugar-coating, some stuff is hard to understand, complex and not everyone can get to the bottom of it. It just happens in some programming languages, happens in most of mathematics, physics and computer science.