Totally the opposite - I think that's really from Scala's first versions of so. But Scala has a steep learning curve for the advanced techniques and the compil

Totally the opposite - I think that's really from Scala's first versions of so. But Scala has a steep learning curve for the advanced techniques and the compile times can be very annoying when using those. And if you don't use the advanced techniques, you might as well pick Kotlin or Java instead.