[saryant]

Fortunately it's feedback that the community has taken to heart. 2.11 should improve compile times, as will new incremental compilation features in SBT 0.13. IntelliJ's Scala support has gotten much better recently and the official Scala plugin for Eclipse has also made major strides. (Though I still use vim)

Odersky has taken an official stance against symbolic method names, especially in libraries, and many of the most famous offenders (Dispatch's absurd periodic table) are rightly ridiculed within the Scala community.

I don't have anything to add on implicits. They've certainly tripped me up a few times but generally it's just a matter of finding the right import, though I have been cursing Play's implicit JsValueWrapper the last few days.

[adriaanm]

Thanks. I should add that dispatch has long abandoned their periodic table (before they got called on it last Scala Days, actually).

[saryant]

That's good to know. I haven't used Dispatch since 2011 when I first started using Scala (that was a rough introduction). I'm looking forward to Play moving their WS package out of the core though—right now we've basically written a few wrappers around AHC in their style for the pure Akka parts of our stack but we'd love to standardize.