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by pkolaczk 2367 days ago
This has nothing to do with languages. I saw the same happening in a company writing pure Java, JS or Python. Doing a project with people who don't have command of whatever stack they are using is asking for trouble.

On the flip side, Scala can be a very pleasant stack to work with if you have right people on the team.

> While with c++ there is a body of compiled recommendations on what not to use and how to write c++, for scala that doesn't really exist.

Principle of least power is what you need.