[Nycto]

I like Scala. I've written a lot of Scala. But choosing a language is a team decision. And Scala draws the same kind of ire as C++. It's to the point that I have seen seasoned engineers laugh any time Scala is suggested.

To provide a bit more depth, a large number of the developers I work with (folks I respect) don't _want_ the kitchen sink. They see it as dangerous. Even if _they_ can handle it, they know that there are a lot of people who can't. Sure, you can limit the features you use via convention, but that is shifting a tech problem to being a people problem -- you usually want to go the other direction.

You can "yeah, but..." all you want, but it's a valid, reasonable opinion. It's subjective, but that's just the way of it.

[djsumdog]

I was part of a startup where I wrote all our server stuff in Scala. It was just three of us to start and I was the only dev. As we added more people, no one wanted to touch the Scala code.

I tried everything. I made some nice Java interfaces so they could write plugins; exposed all the data they needed, wrote a bunch of documentation, had a learning session. No one contributed a damn thing.

They started firing people after I had already left for Australia and was working remotely. They kept me on while secretly having a former Amazon person rewrite my entire service in Java. Good thing I explicitly asked for the whole thing to be kept GPL prior to the contract.

Last year I got hired into a team that does the majority of their work in Scala. It's been a great experience.