I know what you mean since I develop in Scala for a living. I wonder though if the complexity isn't with Scala itself but rather the abstractions that are creat

I know what you mean since I develop in Scala for a living. I wonder though if the complexity isn't with Scala itself but rather the abstractions that are created to enable functional style programming. I recently bought the Oreilly functional javascript book and the code also looked complicated once the author introduced unfamiliar abstractions such as trampolines.