John De Goes on Scala's Compile-Time and Complexity Problems

Cited in Scala and language-marketing discussions for its accurate account of Scala's pain points and its argument that a language's pitch must address a real developer pain.

John A. De Goes's Scalapeno keynote argues that Scala's popularity is declining because of compile times, complexity and compatibility problems. He proposes a path for Scala to survive, including a simplified functional subset.