I enjoyed this article because it stated without a whole lot of bias why Scala was the right tool for the job. Python could have fulfilled some of the requirem

I enjoyed this article because it stated without a whole lot of bias why Scala was the right tool for the job. Python could have fulfilled some of the requirements such as the lighter concurrency; however it would have come at the expense of the ease of deployment. I disagree with type safety being integral to refactoring, but each team has their own culture and this seems to fit theirs well.