This is just unfortunate. First David writes a post thats not befitting of a person that promotes a language. I am not doubting his competency with Scala - his

This is just unfortunate. First David writes a post thats not befitting of a person that promotes a language. I am not doubting his competency with Scala - his display of his contributions prove that. But I have found that there is somewhat of an inverse relation between a person being productive in and promoting a language to how much he disses other languages as well as extolling the virtues of his own language. I am pretty sure you will not hear such stuff from people like Martin Odersky, Rich Hickey and Matz. Guido I am not so sure, ;) (j/k, I am a Python enthusiast) Now that that was said and done, would it have been a big deal to close the chapter and move on? The only way such a post would have struck somewhat of a cord is if he gave specific code examples for each case as to when scala is hard, or when scala is better. Theres not much of that in the post. "What has changed is that I've realized that there's a vast quantity of development shops where the developers show up, have a few meetings, write a few lines of code and go home. I've had experience with three instances of that kind of company over the last year" This is one instance of how off-the-cuff the post can sometimes get. I am sure there are shops like this, but can you draw a conclusion that the above situation equates to what he says in his previous post: "Your developers come in at 9:15 and leave before 6 and don't check work email at night: Hard" I thought his was the humor section of the post, but I am not so sure now. I knew of David from a while back when Lift was starting to get popular among people looking for a different web framework. There's no doubt Lift leverages a lot of Scala's strengths. But maybe sometimes (times like this) David should let Lift do the talking. As I said, simply unfortunate.