The original article he's responding to mentions true generics (i.e. runtime supported). Despite all of Scala's great features, it still compiles down to Java b

The original article he's responding to mentions true generics (i.e. runtime supported). Despite all of Scala's great features, it still compiles down to Java bytecode and lacks these features that are available in the CLR. The "glacial rate" (as someone else put it) at which the Java language and runtime progresses is a major turn-off for people who want to move to the Java platform from C#/CLR or other platforms where these features already exist. Edit: and with Oracle at the helm now, it's even more of a turn-off...