I mostly agree and believe that before another abomination loosely based on Perl is written in Scala, people should learn Scala. However, Scala's syntax is also

I mostly agree and believe that before another abomination loosely based on Perl is written in Scala, people should learn Scala. However, Scala's syntax is also quite complicated, Scala code is often hard to read (far too much TIMTOWTDI there as well), so personally I favour Go as a modern alternative to Perl.