I've done Scala in the past and I think I'd be able to handle it better now. Honestly though, there is such a small footprint of the language that I would even

I've done Scala in the past and I think I'd be able to handle it better now. Honestly though, there is such a small footprint of the language that I would even care to use that I'm not sure it's worth learning. I'd probably stick to the immutable value objects, functional constructs like ruby's equivalent to map, select, each, etc., and use traits to enforce contracts on jack/plug objects. A lot of the other things in Scala don't appeal to me. This is one reason Kotlin is looking more interesting from where I sit. It has the features I want, IDE support, and a decent syntax. It is entirely possible that I'll check out Scala again and fall in love with the language. Who knows.