jimbones

This is so dumb, there are a million JPEG crushers in existence but instead of advocating the use of one of these Mozilla writes their own? Why not support webp rather than dismiss it due to compatibility and waste time doing what has been done before.

Things haven't changed, using Scala doesn't offer significant benefits over Java and it is just a noisy minority that pontificate over Scala and its supposed (largely academic) benefits.

This is the thing I find most annoying regarding Scala use, and people advocating its use, it just doesn't do anything that Java can't do - plus the tooling for Java is wayyy better, there is a smaller learning curve, you can hire people to work with it and you don't spend your days endlessly debating what obscure language feature that may lead to tighter code in release 2.11.B.3.48d.M1.

I call BS here, the tooling for Scala sucks and without strict coding conventions and familiarization with said conventions you can get lost quickly.

The chart included and referenced is just of all the most obscure JVM languages. Look what happens when you add Java to that list [1].

[1] http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+groovy%2C+clojure...)