Other than that, as an avid Scala fan, I've been long wondering why people favour Go so much. Arguably, if you've started out with RoR, then Node.js was a great improvement (dynamic typing with awesome speed). Then came Go, which solves many of the issues you tend to encounter with Node.js. So now, after it has reasonably matured, many people are pivoting to it. Scala, while having a rather "bloated" core library (i.e. quite exhaustive), already does most that Go does (i.e. an Actor is reasonably close to a goroutine etc.) and has an awesome type system. But then, I'm biased and YMMV ;)
Probably true. Go has a far more simple language specification, but it's not as if Scala is particularly alien.
> If you don't have a lot of experience with Java and the JVM, Go also avoids that whole avalanche of complexity, apart from Scala itself.
Why is Java or the JVM an 'avalanche of complexity' for Scala?
It is true that Scala's compile times are long, but the tooling provides ways so that you don't have to wait so much during development.
