> This self-limiting process means that Scala will never truly die out; at any point, there are still more people who are new to Scala than people who have been burnt by it, so there’s always a fresh supply of people willing to believe that it can’t happen to them. The same is true of smokers, of course.
If that's not inflammatory for the sake of it I don't know what is.
> And no, 2.10.x and 2.10.y being compatible isn't something to crow about; it should have been the default.
The moving of the of the goalposts isn't helping your case that your not being inflammatory for the sake of it.
Few people are going to state that Scala doesn't have any problems. However, if you want to raise issues about the language, at least argue fairly and don't insult the users and developers of said language in the process.