I was going to say the same thing. I've been using Scala as a "better Java" for a while now, and the argument that Scala is too complex is kind of baffling. Ta

I was going to say the same thing. I've been using Scala as a "better Java" for a while now, and the argument that Scala is too complex is kind of baffling. Take your Java code, remove almost all the type info, and add some nice syntactic sugar for singletons. That's beginner Scala, and it's already worth using. The rest of the language is just gravy.