[frowaway001]

It would actually be more convincing if it wouldn't sound exactly like the last dozen "I never used Scala, let's just point out some things I read on the internet about it" people.

Why not just try Scala for a while, instead of making things up?

[wyuenho]

> I encountered them on a daily basis when I was doing Scala.

Your assumption that my criticism over Scala is because I hadn't tried it is as valid as my assumption of your disagreement with me is because you haven't tried hard enough.

I had tried Scala on multiple occasions since 2.8 came out. Every time for about 1 month to 5 months. It's impossible to explain how messed up Scala is without writing a whole book about it so I admit it's hard for me to convince you. God I miss SML and Haskell.

Maybe this guy can:

http://yz.mit.edu/wp/true-scala-complexity/

[frowaway001]

So how would you solve his "issue"? (Assuming that you have understood his problem at all.)

[wyuenho]

I wouldn't bother. I'd just go ahead and use 2 distinct APIs directly, and then after a while, I'll realize my code look more and more Javaish, and then I'll switch back to Java.

[frowaway001]

Ah, ok. So you haven't understood the problem, but wanted to say something. Great.

[wyuenho]

I mean I wouldn't bother to shoehorn a Scala wrapper on Java's array.

[frowaway001]

Yes, but that's not the point of the article, right?