There are better options on the tooling. Eclipse rather than IDEA, Maven rather than SBT. Not perfect by any means, and the compiler <i>is</i> slow, but good enough to work with day-to-day.<p>The library ecosystem is growing every day, and the community is starting to recognize the importance of good documentation. See e.g. the Cats project, with a big emphasis on that.<p>Code readability in general, rough edges, and things that are difficult for newcomers to read incrementally are precisely why I&#x27;m so worried about the syntax being frozen.