If by low development overhead you mean amount of crap you need to type in order to get things done, Scala absolutely does have low development overhead.
As for Go, I'd say that's the most honest description of the language I've seen in a while.
As for Go, I'd say that's the most honest description of the language I've seen in a while.
Scala is pretty good in the low boilerplate department. I'm not a fan of Scala in the slightest, but in terms of code more or less directly expressing ideas it isn't bad.