Coming from years of Scala development, it does stand in my way all the time. It's so verbose and it's capabilities for abstraction are very limited, it's hard

Coming from years of Scala development, it does stand in my way all the time. It's so verbose and it's capabilities for abstraction are very limited, it's hard to do anything complex quickly without tons of code generation. I realize having a language with a gentle learning curve that ends at a very low level has its benefits if you want to commoditize software development, and lots of people want just that, but for me it does kill much of the fun. It doesn't seem very suitable for large-ish projects either, at least I haven't seen one that wasn't a mess yet.