[jghn]

I've been working with scala for about 1.5 years. My background previously was mostly Python & R for the previous 10 years although I had been working w/ Java a little here and there for about a year prior to switching to Scala.

I didn't encounter any difficulty picking up Scala - my main resources at the time were "Programming in Scala", poking around StackOverflow and my group's existing code base. If anything I think my background with Python & R helped as I was already familiar with a lot of the functional-ish approaches from those languages (e.g. lambdas, maps, etc)

As Kev009 pointed out, using something like IntelliJ helped immensely as well as it handles a lot of the boilerplate-y stuff.

[bkeroack]

Nice. That's very similar to my background (R & Python). There's no existing codebase though, we are doing everything greenfield in Scala.

I'll give IntelliJ another try, thanks.