I feel you. I tried Scala out and after several days I just uninstalled everything from my computer which was related to Scala. The main reason is that it feels

I feel you. I tried Scala out and after several days I just uninstalled everything from my computer which was related to Scala. The main reason is that it feels like some extremely baroque java without any sensible syntax. It looks like the C sytax but in fact it is not. Return types are sometimes explicit sometimes implicit. If you try to learn Scala you have to forget anything you know and learn the over-engineered ways of Scala. And in the end you don't get anything back which is not accessible in other languaes in a significantly easier way. You want functional style and easy concurrency? Go clojure. You want scalability for your webapp with 999999999 visitors per day? Go node. You want scientific calculations with good library support? Go python. You want a sensible type system and monads? Go Haskell. Scala just does not have much to offer in exchange for the terrible pile of contraptions it forces you to use.