Look, Java was born when C++/CORBA dominated investment banking and everybody was having headaches with those. Java was like "manna from heaven" that made every

Look, Java was born when C++/CORBA dominated investment banking and everybody was having headaches with those. Java was like "manna from heaven" that made everything orders of magnitude simpler. It still didn't get everything right, like too much boilerplate, but simplicity of approach was there. Then Scala arrived, and obfuscated everything. It didn't retain simplicity of either Java or Haskell, instead went full-blown C++ "many styles" way. As a consequence, either all of your team is on the same level in the same areas in Scala, or you are going to have "fun" in production. In Java the syntax was quite trivial, in Scala one has to fight with DSLs of different frameworks and unintended consequences of various higher-order structures originally designed to be "simple".