Going by LOC: I find I write less Scala than Ruby to accomplish a thing. To be fair I don't really include import statements in that comparison since I rarely a

Going by LOC: I find I write less Scala than Ruby to accomplish a thing. To be fair I don't really include import statements in that comparison since I rarely actually write an import manually (IntelliJ alt+enter completion). Learning where things are in the stdlib for Java is different, but not harder than Ruby IMO. Where is MD5 in Ruby? Or DateTime? I can and do code Scala in ST2 on occasion. Mostly for gists. IntelliJ just makes working on bigger codebases nicer. Anyways, just an opportunity to say: You don't necessarily have to trade in performance and verbosity. You can get a relatively succinct language, with much better performance, and still enjoy the ecosystem.