What the hell are you talking about? I provided a counterpoint to Kmett's detailing all that is wrong with Scala, by providing some of the good. Kmett is a living legend, I'm not questioning the guy's integrity; he went off in that reddit thread based on his [deep] experience of the language, which is entirely non-average.
re: Paul Phillips, he's knows Scala probably better than anyone else on the planet; yes, the soundness of the compiler affects everyone, but those who are most bitten and bothered by it are library authors (read: advanced users), not end users who remain, for the most part, unaware of whatever issues may lie under the hood.
> Or this. Do you remember the part where I tried to convince you to use haskell? Neither do I.
Other than Haskell, given the context of the thread, which language might you be referring to as the better alternative to Scala?
> You could leave for something better, keep all those things, and get tons of important things that you also won't realize you are missing until you get used to them and then try to live without them.
That sounds great! I am curious about leaving Scala for something better -- please name this better alternative that is presumably not Haskell.