On: What's Next for Scala

[ratherbefuddled]

Avoiding the necessity for libraries like many of these would be a key success criteria for a new language were I judging.

[pjmlp → ratherbefuddled]

Then don't expect to actually take over Java on the domains it owns.

[maddening → pjmlp]

Why Java devs automatically assume that every new language is made to overthrow Java/C#? They might still to provide better development in a particular domain. Go or Python or JacaScript are good at rivaling Java at mainstream language, and so what?

[pjmlp → maddening]

Because that is what the "every new language" crowd keeps selling, without understanding how they got there.