I use scala a lot and it did become my go to general purpose language (as well as my workplace adopted it as a first class citizen and used for many new project

I use scala a lot and it did become my go to general purpose language (as well as my workplace adopted it as a first class citizen and used for many new projects) I do have issues with it, but mostly with developers using (abusing) it. (And library authors that are a bit religious about the functional paradigm and simply love their operators... With great power comes great responsibility, the is no better description to this language. Also, I was looking at the CanBuildFrom hell with fear, but Odersky et al's book on Scala surprisingly did a good job getting the pieces in place for me. It even makes sense of the madness. http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala_2ed http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala_2ed Finally, Bozho is one of my most respected contributors on stackoverflow. And I can say that his slides actually do justice to Scala, I might disagree on the conclusions, but the facts are absolutely right.