>I view this largely as a deficiency in style guidance, but Scala attracts very opinionated people in my experience and I say good luck to any style guide being

>I view this largely as a deficiency in style guidance, but Scala attracts very opinionated people in my experience and I say good luck to any style guide being upheld across a large org or team. That's a great point, and probably one of the biggest downfalls of Scala. Not only did it allow for both 'java++' style programming, it also had full on almost 'haskell' style as well, and the community was split on which way was better! So yeah, any given codebase in the company could be a very tight, neat, compact monad transformer heavy functional program, or it could be a mess of untyped actors passing messages around to mutable state ridden monstrosities!