completely agree..scala is a fantastic language. Scala has gotten a lot of hate, for sure Some for good reasons, but much of it is, I think, doesn't really app

completely agree..scala is a fantastic language. Scala has gotten a lot of hate, for sure Some for good reasons, but much of it is, I think, doesn't really apply anymore. I've been using daily for about 2 years now and it would be difficult to go back to Java at this point, for all of the reasons you stated. For me, it feels most like Swift.. concise but expressive, but with more mature collection and concurrency primitives. I think developers are looking at it more closely now that they're more experienced with functional capabilities in other languages and now can understand all of the type constructions. Granted, most of what I've done is in Spark, but I use it now for other mundane things like os scripting (something I would have used Python for previously). There are some great libraries for it and can't recommend it enough.