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> The better you know a language, the more tempting it is to take shortcuts.

I used to work with experienced and passionate Scala developers. On the one hand, their expertise helped them to avoid common language and runtime pitfalls.

On the other hand, the desire to produce elegant, pure functional code, experiment with and utilise powerful abstractions slowed the development down, led to the code that was hard to understand and jump on for new team members.