if you are watching, modersky, please appreciate that a big reason these articles get upvoted is because people want to discuss Scala. many of the comments are

if you are watching, modersky, please appreciate that a big reason these articles get upvoted is because people want to discuss Scala. many of the comments are positive :D i for one see value in Scala, for many of the reasons outlined here, though I am experimenting and thinking it through for myself. the more interaction i have with it the more i see it as a marriage of several great worlds. One could argue that this makes for a jack-of-all-trades scenario. but let's be honest, that is what the web world seems to be demanding. & now, to fan the flames the tiniest bit -- when I was in the RoR ecosystem it made me absolutely sick how fervently the user-base seemed to glorify and idolize it. Go to any random blog post on the internet that paints Rails negatively and you will see a stream of tl;dr comments defending it that have almost NO technical basis. just my experience anyway... and in many cases all they seemed to be defending was syntactic sugar, a tangled web of OO, and mediocre gems. But my real disappointment was that the culture of convention seemed to be a cultural of programming ignorance and non-education. This does not mean I hate RoR, since these discussions are irrelevant. But the point is that I appreciate that Martin's views are at least rooted in programming philosophy rather than hype-mongering for or against. Scala is a student's language at the very least, whereas many other popular web languages are an uninspired grouping of OO conventions. He seems to want to educate, moreso than proselytize. Perhaps this simply makes him the devil's advocate but I see the potential for Scala to be much more than an exercise. And if some other JVM language gets a better foothold, I doubt Mr. Odersky will mentally implode. I expect more Scala ecosystem advancements far into the future.