I agree that compilation is a lot slower but it's actually not that much for any practical use. In any case recompilations happen a lot more than from scratch c

I agree that compilation is a lot slower but it's actually not that much for any practical use. In any case recompilations happen a lot more than from scratch compilations, which are fast. Don't you agree that different styles will be there no matter what in any high level language? You will always find code written by other people to be different. Some comments make it look like the different styles feel like different languages but short of writing Java in Scala you won't find that to be the case. I will agree that some codebases are slightly more complex but they are libraries and they are complex because they want me to have a nicer, richer API.