[d4nt]

In all fairness, it does come across as "well thought out" and "solid"; similar to the way that Java comes across as well thought out and solid. I can tell it does a lot but I have to be completely initiated into the JVM way of thinking before I can get anything done. The quickstart page has some 6000 words, which describes how to set up an XML file containing all sorts of stuff. I'm introduced to things like a standard directory structure, Archetypes, CLASSPATHs and Project Object Models. All because I finished the Scala tutorial and then tried to use a library that wasn't installed on my machine already.

With Python, in the past things were a little trickier with easy install, but these days the library's web page would probably have told me to type:

    pip install third_party_library

And that's about it. Even if you haven't got Pip it's quite obvious what to do, the terminal tells you it doesn't know what pip is, so you Google "install pip Windows/Mac/..." and pretty soon you're up and running.