Regarding Go... perhaps the parent was harsh, but not wrong <i>per se</i>. I think a strong argument can be made for Go being a very poorly designed language with an excellent community.<p>Scala certainly doesn&#x27;t have high development overhead either. Build system more or less just works, plenty of libraries, minimal ceremony to do much. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I kinda hate Scala¹, but compared to _many_ languages it does have low development overhead.<p>¹ Disclaimer: haven&#x27;t used Scala since 2.8. Maybe it&#x27;s better now. Don&#x27;t get your panties in a wad, but Scala is basically really shitty OCaml on the JVM in my mind.