My experience tells me the opposite. Scala codebases written by professionals are very readable even to people not knowing Java, but Python. Many analysts use S

My experience tells me the opposite. Scala codebases written by professionals are very readable even to people not knowing Java, but Python. Many analysts use Scala and Python. The only people I met who complained on Scala complexity were guys who were either invested heavily in another language (eg Haskell), in which case it was just a subjective opinion or people who struggled with writing good Java code as well.