[felipehummel]

Comparing Pattern matching to "ifs and elses" shows that, saddly, he didn't really understand its power.

Also, his opinion on Options seems to forget its advantage that the compiler won't let you use a "nullable" object without proper care. It is the main thing about it.

From the talk, it seems that he was new to Scala, didn't properly understand its concepts, wrote a bunch of spaguetti code and then blamed the language.

[smosher]

This went over like a bad joke to the usual suspects on Twitter. It was often much less polite than your comment.