If you stick to a reasonable middle-ground of scala it really shouldn't be hard to teach. I do like the FP community but that style has gone a long way towards

If you stick to a reasonable middle-ground of scala it really shouldn't be hard to teach. I do like the FP community but that style has gone a long way towards mythologizing scala as an impossible language to teach. In my experience it's clearly considerably simpler than Rust or C++ to become productive in.