I know what you mean. Even things like error handling in Scala have divergent paradigms, to the point where we had one Scala consultant at the company I worked

I know what you mean. Even things like error handling in Scala have divergent paradigms, to the point where we had one Scala consultant at the company I worked for using exceptions, and another trying to use Eithers. I have to say though, coming from a C++ background, Scala still feels much more beautiful, clean, and safe than C++... but then, almost everything does ;)