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There are certainly folks that argue the language it too big. Here's a great talk arguing that a lot of language features should be eliminated and Scala should be made a functional programming language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8IQ-X2HkGE&t=1s&ab_channel=...

I'm personally in the camp of "keep Scala huge and weird and multi-paradigm, but just make less breaking changes and focus all efforts on making the ecosystem more stable".

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Worth noting that the presenter of this talk has done a complete 180 on subtyping as he's now using subtyping and variance in the core of his flagship library ZIO. He realized it was sometimes better to use the language's strengths rather than denigrate them for "ideological" reasons.

Also worth noting that Scala is not a "very big" language in any sense that I know of. It has a lot fewer features than C#, for instance. And probably a comparable amount to TypeScript.

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