Tying a new language to the JVM is basically like helping a drowning man by throwing him an anchor. Scala the language is decent, but the JVM-induced clusterfuck of complex stdlib/IDE reliance/maven makes for a non-starter.
> Scala the language is decent, but the JVM-induced clusterfuck of complex stdlib/IDE reliance/maven makes for a non-starter.
I see things the other way around: the JVM is a very impressive piece of technology that has been aging impressively well for more than fifteen years while Scala is a C++-like monstrosity that will probably be all but forgotten in a few years.
Personally, I'm more interested in the new crop of JVM languages such as Kotlin.
