To me, the odd thing is that it doesn't mention the one thing Scala drops for which I haven't a workaround: static final fields. Now, from a pure coding standp

To me, the odd thing is that it doesn't mention the one thing Scala drops for which I haven't a workaround: static final fields. Now, from a pure coding standpoint, I don't actually need a static final field. However, Android requires such creatures if you want to create a new Parcelable, Android's lightweight alternative to Serializable.