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I wonder how much of an impact it would be if Scala simply had better documentation. I love the terseness of the code and the complex things you can do, but I'll be damned if I could ever glean ideas from looking at method definitions rather than code examples.

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I found it essential to read Martin Odersky's Programming in Scala book - if you haven't then I recommend it. It makes many things clear that can be hard to pick up using only the free online resources.

There's also a new docs site and it's getting better all the time: http://docs.scala-lang.org/

There's a lot of good books on the language, this is 1st edition of staircase book, which covers 2.7, so probably the majority was written for 2.8

http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/

There's also a book manuscript (downloadable from typesafe.com, and Manning.com has 3 books in the pipeline, tho the 3rd, on FP by Tony Morris doesn't show there.

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