[michaels0620]

I enjoy Scala but I would say there is truth to 3 (phantom menace). Although tool support has improved markedly over the last couple of years I still get cases where the IDE is complaining about an error and I go nuts trying to fix it only to give up, run it anyway, and have the error just disappear.

If you spend too much time reading Scala blogs, you may get the impression that 6 (the type babel) is how many people write scala. A lot Scala bloggers like to write articles that exploit or examine clever aspects of the type system but it can be pretty impenetrable at times. At least to a blub like me.