The thing that fascinates me is scala is like an art. It's like a new Obfuscated Perl Contest, but for functional programming. It doesn't really serve a purpose in legitimate business.
Scala code doesn't scale, it compiles too slow due to having too many features in the syntax. They took features normally meant for a standard library / external projects and literally augmented them into the syntax.
Scala, in it's current form, is a pipe dream. It really needs to be start over, but drastically simplified. Perhaps it should try to take a hit from Golang for compiler time advice: Simple languages compile fast and are easier to optimize.
