There's also a lot to be said for having fewer footguns. One reason I liked CoffeeScript is that it actually removed JS footguns such as "with", ==, etc. I'd r

There's also a lot to be said for having fewer footguns. One reason I liked CoffeeScript is that it actually removed JS footguns such as "with", ==, etc. I'd rather either Clojure or Java to using Scala and having all the possible complexity and interactions between paradigms it makes possible. Sometimes less is more.