&gt; One of the things I love about Scala is that you don&#x27;t have to &quot;go all the way&quot; though<p>This is true of any language so it doesn&#x27;t mean much.<p>Still, we went through the same thing with C++ 20 years ago. Google even used to have (still does?) a style guide saying which features to use and which ones not to use.<p>Instead of having to use a guide that tells me which features of a language are dangerous, I prefer a language that doesn&#x27;t require such a guide in the first place.