"Notice how several of the problems I pinpoint above are of the form, “How do I accomplish this expression that isn’t even possible in many other languages?” An

"Notice how several of the problems I pinpoint above are of the form, “How do I accomplish this expression that isn’t even possible in many other languages?” And these are mostly static build issues, which are far from the worst fates imaginable. Certainly, if you don’t care at all about clumsy code or resorting to escape hatches or “writing Java in Scala,” it’s frequently possible to bang out mostly-type-safe Scala while side-stepping battles against the compiler straitjacket. Plus, let’s not lose sight of all the things Scala brings to the table, none of which I’ve described. If there’s one thing more time-consuming than illustrating the complexities of the Scala language, it’s illustrating all the advantages, and I’ve already spent more time on this post than I’d care to admit."