This is one of the lamest "things" on HN/the Internet in a while. You have one guy who says he doesn't like Scala, provides almost no actual reasons apart from

This is one of the lamest "things" on HN/the Internet in a while. You have one guy who says he doesn't like Scala, provides almost no actual reasons apart from hand waving, and pretty much says he's never actually used it for anything. He then points to a language which has zero traction, and will never gain any, as his ideal language. That's great. It really is. So this guy doesn't want to use Scala. That's good for him. Why do you care? If this was an interesting analysis of the language, or the libraries, or some actual code, that would be something to talk about. But it's more a whiny "why are all you guys switching to Scala! I don't like it! Come back!" pseudo-"debate" than anything else.