Far from it. When Java gets pattern matching, Scala will have moved to version 3.0 with trait parameters, union and intersection types, implicit functions, type

Far from it. When Java gets pattern matching, Scala will have moved to version 3.0 with trait parameters, union and intersection types, implicit functions, type lambdas, cleaner macros and many more. Also, Scala compiler slowness is virtually not a problem any more since introduction of Zinc 1.0. During development, I get repeatedly compile times around 2-5 seconds on Scala 2.11, and recent Scala 2.12.x / 2.13.x showed to be typically 30%-100% faster than 2.11.x.