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Disclaimer I like Fantom and it is my language of choice. That said, I agree he (Stephen) for every fault he finds Scala finds a way to recommend Fantom. That strikes me as dubious.

Nevertheless I find this statement:

> Scala is lightyears ahead of Fantom and Fantom will probably never catch up. If Fantom can't win on technical merit, then apparently the next best strategy involves negative blogging!

Baseless at best. In what aspect is Scala lightyears ahead?

Also what are you implying by saying 'if it can't win on technical merit then best strategy involves negative blogging!'

First Stephen is just one guy. Second I think Stephen just likes Fantom for the same reasons he dislikes Scala and wanted to blog about it.

The authors and the community have overall been quite ambivalent to Scala. As witnessed by this blog from one of Fantom's authors: http://fantom.org/sidewalk/topic/675