[hnriot]

I wish people would stop creating scala libraries and frameworks, it just fragments the java community. Scala was a short term hack to fill in the gaps until Java has lambdas. Java does now and there's no need to keep scala separate, the syntactical sugar to remove some of the boilerplate to java is just not worth the fragmenting effect. We've seen much the same thing with python 2 and python 3, which differ in ways similar to java. We need to delete scala and delete python 3 and all get back to solving real problems.

[DCKing]

> Scala was a short term hack to fill in the gaps until Java has lambdas.

If you think this is true and not just trolling, you are extremely ignorant about Scala's history, Scala's aims and Scala's features. Scala is so much more than a better Java, this statement is beyond ridiculous.

[x_42_123]

Here's an interesting video from a Scala expert:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJycy6dFSQ

[frowaway001]

Yawn