I've been reading about Scala (there are some really remarkable resources available on the web). I haven't done a whole lot with it though, so I really don't know much about it.
A couple of things are becoming clear. First, Scala is popular. Not C++ or Java popular, but it's definitely not a niche language, either. It's not going away any time soon.
There are a lot of "Scala is complex" blog posts lately. Yet when I read the posts, either they are not written by developers with extensive Scala experience, or they are trying to do something on the edge that I'd never try to do. What I want to know is how complex it is for basic numerical programming.
I'm not a big fan of C++, but I am a big fan of Bjarne Stroustrup. As he once said, there are languages people complain about and languages nobody uses. I get the impression that a whole lot of users have used Scala long enough that they've reached the edges of a very deep language. Then they (some of them anyway) start writing blog posts.
So 2012 is the year I need to do something real with Scala.
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