I think you just need to hire an experienced Scala Developer for a month or two until your team gets up to speed. It'd be like a c# team having a Ruby app dumpe

I think you just need to hire an experienced Scala Developer for a month or two until your team gets up to speed. It'd be like a c# team having a Ruby app dumped in their lap. You're practically preordained to hate it. ;-) The documentation for Scala is actually pretty outstanding IMO. I had a much easier time compared to Ruby. Daniel Westheide's introduction series "The Neophyte's Guide to Scala" is the single best language intro I've ever seen, for any language. It even goes into enough of Akka to get a basic chat application going. And while Akka works nicely with Scala, it's conventions are so different it might as well be a different language. In idiomatic Scala you probably don't run into mapTo or vars too often for example, but that's going to be a pretty common sight working with Akka. At least the documentation on PlayFramework.com is mostly current, and doesn't gloss over important detail. Unlike rubyonrails.org, where even five years ago the basics were horribly dated, inaccurate, and skip important background.