[DavidMcLaughlin]

Most of the complaints I see from Java programmers amount to this:

http://blog.tmorris.net/anti-intellectual-euphemisms/

Specifically:

> using the word complex, unnatural, academic, “your world” or unintuitive to mean “I am not able nor am I willing to invest the effort to come to to understand this.”

Other than those people:

The blog author I quote above is one of the many "PL gurus" you speak of that rip into Scala because of its various deficiencies when compared to the likes of Haskell. The ones I am smart enough to understand mostly revolve around the type inference and type erasure problems. You mentioned those but I have already run into issues where I did care about them so I don't think its fair to dismiss them as you did.

The amount of hyperbole that comes from elements of the Scala community on actors I think is a cause of a fair amount of vitriol, mostly because actors are not a silver bullet and come with their own host of problems. Akka is trying to solve some of those problems of course :)

And of course the lack of tools. It's hard for me to talk about this because I loathe IDEs. So far I have been writing my medium sized project entirely in vim + NERDTree and it's been great. I imagine with enterprise scale projects I would start to miss Eclipse though.