I agree. But as Scala gets more and more popular, they're going to become a whole ecosystem and platform unto themselves. But because they're on the JVM, all th

I agree. But as Scala gets more and more popular, they're going to become a whole ecosystem and platform unto themselves. But because they're on the JVM, all the new tools etc are going to be customized to handle unique JVM-only issues. It's a classic platform lock-in situation. And Oracle is driving the wheel here. Not sure how that's going to work out much better than all the great tools that were built on top of Microsoft's MFC framework. People didn't realize that it was a bad idea until it was too late to change. Sometimes in CS it really makes sense to build things slower and more carefully to avoid issues that may only come up years down the road.