Well, if this whining is what you get when a language seems to have some industry appeal, I think I need to work a lot harder to get rid of these people. You h

Well, if this whining is what you get when a language seems to have some industry appeal, I think I need to work a lot harder to get rid of these people. You have plenty of language design disasters to choose from if you want to have a language which cares about "industry concerns". Even in Scala, the most painful warts and horrible "features" exist because of "industry requirements". I could live without all those crazy conversions from Strings and numbers for instance. Or all that crazy stuff necessary to support Java's idea of Generics. Listening to the industry is exactly the reason why criminals can own machines by sending a web request with a bash function embedded in a bash variable to a remote server somewhere. In. 2014. Until "industry" gets their shit together, their opinions are more than worthless.