I was one of the people that were really enthusiastic about Scala. But back then even as an enthusiast I had to admit Scala had a lot of drawbacks. Every bad th

I was one of the people that were really enthusiastic about Scala. But back then even as an enthusiast I had to admit Scala had a lot of drawbacks. Every bad thing inherited from Java, to start, and the leaky abstractions that forced, as well as the learning curve. Maybe the worst part was how easy Scala made it to write completely unintelligible code. Scala could effortlessly tap into the Java ecosystem, though. Rust is much easier to recommend than Scala ever was. Rust's ecosystem is a bit smaller than you'd typically like, but that's a temporary problem.