[athenot]

> You can write boring code in Scala, but in my (limited) experience, Scala developers don't want to write boring code. They picked Scala not because it was the best tool for the job, but because they were bored and wanted to flex their skills. Disregarding the other 95% of programmers that would have to work with it.

Intersting observation.

So basically Scala is to the JVM what Perl is to scripting?

[vaylian]

You can write readable Scala code, just like you can write readable Perl code. But both languages allow you to to write very concise and cryptic code as well. Scala doesn't seem to optimize for the "one obvious solution" approach like Python does. Scala seems to be more TIMTOWDY like Perl.

Scala was designed from the beginning to support classical Java-style OOP code and also Haskell-like functional code. These are 2 very different styles in one language. And then Scala supports defining DSLs which give you even more flexibility.