| Scala has no operator overloading. You cannot blame language on somebody picking bad method names. There are plenty of bad names in Java and Kotlin libraries as well. > an overly complex type system It is only as complex as it has to be to solve problems it was designed to solve. I take a more complex type system that make complex problems hard to solve rather than a simplistic type system that make complex problems impossible to solve. > it feels a little too much like a language that was designed by throwing nifty ideas at a wall without cutting out the stuff that didn't stick Name a few that could be removed without making the language significantly less powerful. Most people saying "Scala is complex" really want to say "Scala has many concepts I'm unfamiliar with". Java or C are also "too complex" for most VB programmers. > Add in the slow compiler It is not as bad as you may think, and IDE support is stellar, so I don't need to compile really that often. Many successful languages have much slower compile times: C++, Rust. Incremental compilation is fast enough. I get typically 1-5 seconds compile times. > sbt (I don't need another build system, thanks) SBT is not mandatory. Just a tool. Pick whatever you wish. Scala works perfectly fine with Gradle or Maven. |