Maybe I should preface that by saying I'm not a big fan of Scala... But I think Scala has the major problem that Perl has, take 5 developers and you get 6 diff

Maybe I should preface that by saying I'm not a big fan of Scala... But I think Scala has the major problem that Perl has, take 5 developers and you get 6 different styles. I went from "Scala is horrible" to "oh, this actually looks nice" to "omg, what the hell" and so forth. Look at a random library as a beginner and think "is this really Scala"? And that's even ignoring the problems with sbt, binary compatibility, and so on. Yes, there were some success stories. Also some stories of replacing Java with Scala, but I've heard nearly as much "well we replaced it but we don't know if it's really better".