I would say there are tons of other features as well. More often than not Java programming just consists of throwing gang signs on your keyboard for your Ide t

I would say there are tons of other features as well. More often than not Java programming just consists of throwing gang signs on your keyboard for your Ide to create tons of boilerplate. Well case classes can implement traits, might have a companion object and can (poorly) replace enums. Scala sometimes seems to not need standard classes. Other languages like go, rust or c can do just fine without classes at all.