One ding to Scala's practicality, it's such an enormous language that to use it in production with a large team almost requires a C++ level of discipline in dec

One ding to Scala's practicality, it's such an enormous language that to use it in production with a large team almost requires a C++ level of discipline in deciding which elements of the language to use. It's a terrific language though and the fact that it runs on the JVM is a huge advantage.