Really? I've found the community of Scala really nice and welcoming, always ready to answer my stupid questions, one of the nicest communities I've had the chance to be around. A lot of people are critical of Scala sure, mostly around tooling and the language isn't mentioned a lot in discussion forums, but I think nonetheless there is a great spirit to be found in the Scala community and great learning resources for functional programming. Atleast that is my experience.