[rossj]

I asked on twitter, and got a reasonable response. Investing in learning Scala is a much longer term thing than learning Go (which is, in their experience, a much quicker thing to do).

[CmonDev]

Because you always need to use all the features the language provides. Simpler -> limited.

[rossj]

C is much simpler than Scala, is it more limited?

[CmonDev]

In it's expressive ability - definitely. In terms of implementing stuff, everything that is Turing-complete could be used.