Speaking as someone who's been meaning to read up on Scala for a while, I found it worthwhile (though I could have read a transcript faster...) Here's the brea

Speaking as someone who's been meaning to read up on Scala for a while, I found it worthwhile (though I could have read a transcript faster...) Here's the breakdown for those who might want to skip around: 0m-15m Introduction and Twitter's language desiderata; 15m-26m Scala features (high-level descriptions); 26m30-33m Actual code examples; 33m-44m Links: first books and blogs, with a rundown of which ones are most useful to different constituencies, then tools and libraries, again with descriptions of who might use them; 44m-48m Problems and weaknesses; 48m-end Q&A. I would say that the segment from 15m-33m or so and 44m-48m are most useful for someone trying to answer the question "should I spend time to go learn Scala?" and 33m-44m are more useful for people who have already decided to learn it and are now looking for pointers on where to start.