This talk from Paul Phillips is really interesting: http://parleys.com/play/528cbfc3e4b084eb60ac78f2/about http://parleys.com/play/528cbfc3e4b084eb60ac78f2/abo

This talk from Paul Phillips is really interesting: http://parleys.com/play/528cbfc3e4b084eb60ac78f2/about http://parleys.com/play/528cbfc3e4b084eb60ac78f2/about With slides: http://www.slideshare.net/extempore/keynote-pnw-scala-2013 http://www.slideshare.net/extempore/keynote-pnw-scala-2013 The main take-away imo is the line "every increase in expressiveness brings an increased burden on all who care to understand the message" That line basically why I am not as fond of Scala as I originally was. My defense of the inevitable "well hire smarter developers then!" is twofold (a) You're saying Scala is not a mass market audience language and (b) you aren't as smart as you at 4am, after you were just woken up because your code is broken in production.