[MetaCosm]

Despite that post for tolerance of other JVM languages, I still found the linked (original) thread a type of toxic community I haven't exactly seen before. Peppered with great posts, but overall, disturbing.

Self-important to an extreme (We are a threat to them .. mentioned dozen+ times), often describing people who don't like Scala as either lazy or defensive. The concept that someone could be very adept at Scala, and still think it isn't a good language (and set of important libraries) is simply a non-starter for them.

That type of fundamental arrogance in a community so young is bad news -- and it appears to come right from the top.

On the upside, there was at least begrudging acknowledgement that issues actually exist.

[playing_colours]

Please don't exaggerate. There are only 2 posts from the same user there where an author mentioned laziness and self-defence as possible reasons to dislike Scala.

Most posts are really about the existing problems and what can be done to improve things in Scala. In general I find this conversation very constructive and mature. I use Scala at work and see how things are gradually improving, and this conversation makes me more assured that language/community continue to move in that direction.

[taude]

I don't know....it seemed to work for the Ruby on Rails community. :)