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by kikibobo69 5490 days ago
The people who actually manage to write a few thousands lines of Scala (and end up happy), are great people to code with (or hire) in my experience.

It's easier to better engineer complicated things in simple ways when you are less encumbered by non-essential complexity. Once you surmount the learning curve, Scala brings a lot. If you can't or won't put enough in to make it, well, sure, it won't be for you. Personally I like solving problems that are hard enough to benefit from Scala's expressiveness. But I completely concede that for lots of people, there's just no reason not to keep on doing Java. Or Cobol for that matter.

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I agree, I just gave reasons what in my mind prevents others to follow the same path.