[aliakhtar]

This is like saying, airplanes are too complex. There are so many knobs and buttons. I'd rather just walk or ride a bike everywhere.

Scala is a very powerful, very expressive language. There are some features which you can just choose to leave out. If you do, you end up with a very clean, concise, and powerful language that makes you really productive.

I've literally had moments where I made my algorithm 5x faster just by adding 4 letters: '.par' in front of an operation. Instantly it got parallelized without my having to do anything, and the processing time got cut 5x.

[TeeWEE]

Its more like saying: I need to cut some paper ( i need to program): Swiss army knifes (scala) are too complex, I just need a pair of pair of scissors (lisp / other languages).

[aliakhtar]

Scala really isn’t that complex though. It’s actually pretty intuitive.

You CAN write bad and hairy scala code just like you can in any language. But that doesn’t mean the language is to blame.

[tastyminerals2]

And that's why there are far fewer pilots in this world than stewards.