Scala is a very different beast from Java. It has all that you mentioned, to be sure, but it also has a lot more. You should check out Gosu[1], which is a lang

Scala is a very different beast from Java. It has all that you mentioned, to be sure, but it also has a lot more. You should check out Gosu[1], which is a language that does exactly what you say without adding complexity or being as different from Java as Scala. [1]: http://gosu-lang.org http://gosu-lang.org