You can program in Scala just like Java, with both hands tied behind your back if you please. If you can’t restrain yourself and not use free monads or whatever

You can program in Scala just like Java, with both hands tied behind your back if you please. If you can’t restrain yourself and not use free monads or whatever, that’s on you, not the language. I’ve worked on enterprise Scala code bases for a number of years, and no single person on the team would ever switch to Java. In fact, while many of them started as Java devs, many have sworn to never take another Java job in their life.