"I can look at Swift without having ever written any and know roughly what it's doing. I can't with Scala." Gut feeling, Scala is the new Perl. At least with

"I can look at Swift without having ever written any and know roughly what it's doing. I can't with Scala." Gut feeling, Scala is the new Perl. At least with respect to 'idiomatic' Scala/Perl encouraging a terseness, as well as a fairly deep/loyal (if small) fan base. Also, many of the use cases where the language shines tend to be non-mainstream - usually other languages handle mundane 'every day' use cases differently, perhaps more verbosely, but also with a lot more developers on board. Just a thought that popped in to my head. I've no doubt I've offended the very core of many Scala and Perl devs out there just now. ;)