Comment by eropple

I like C#, I write a lot of it, but the claims of complexity regarding Scala are just so vastly overblown. Anyone who's a competent Java programmer and has an open mind (which is the nicest way I can think of to say "doesn't pee themselves when they see a lambda") can be a competent Scala programmer within a month of daily use. It's not that hard, the tooling today in IDEA is roughly Java-level in terms of quality, and the language itself steers you towards constructs that make doing the Right Thing fairly easy.