[rad_gruchalski]

Why not use that java dependency in scala?

[eitland]

Culture it seems.

Functional style is cool and some people will go to great lengths to use it.

Like shaving a few characters of a perfectly fine piece of code by using currying and instead make one single long line of code describing it.

[pjmlp]

Guest language syndrome. All libraries must be idiomatic instead of reusing the platform language based libraries.

[johnnycerberus]

Exactly that.