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Have you looked into the tools and amenability of Scala to static analysis and found them lacking?

Also, it seems a bit odd to call Scala "syntactic sugar". It's a pretty unique language in its own right.

I suggest you RTFA, some highlights regarding your fears:

- Integrated with sbt (including support for dependency management and incremental compilation)

- Can be used with your favorite IDE for Scala

- Generates Source Maps for a smooth debugging experience (step through your Scala code from within your browser supporting source maps)

Scala is outside of reality, it's academic diarrhea.

It's nothing but syntactic sugar (more like salt) for Java's async functionality and we all know that anything made from shit is expected to be shit.