I think you have something here. Scala is complez, but it lets you "push down" a lot of application-level complexity into the language where it can be better ma

I think you have something here. Scala is complez, but it lets you "push down" a lot of application-level complexity into the language where it can be better managed snd understood by tooling. For example, - Scala singleton objects add complexity footprint to the language, but reify a super common pattern in Java and ensures everyone does it the same way. - Case classes add yet more resource footprint, but again reify a common pattern that in Java-land is fragmented between Beans and POJOs and other things. - Named and optional parameters add complexity over Java's simple method calling style, but subsume a whole zoo of builders, overloading, telescoping and other patterns used to work around their absence Each of these features certainly makes the language more complex, but arguably at the same time they make user code more simple and boring