This is sort of true in theory, but not in practice. Scala is actually a pretty pragmatic and - for what you actually need in practice - conceptually simple la

This is sort of true in theory, but not in practice. Scala is actually a pretty pragmatic and - for what you actually need in practice - conceptually simple language. In many ways it's simpler than Java. It does have a powerful type system, and people do bizarre and unnatural things with it, but unless you're trying to do those things the complexity doesn't come into play. (That's an interesting contrast with C++, where in theory all its features were designed to be orthogonal so that you don't need to know about exceptions or templates unless you're using them, but in practice in any nontrivial codebase you'll spend days staring at screenfuls of incomprehensible STL errors.)