There's a constant discussion about Scala being a complex language. In this post I'll try to show the simple parts of Scala that make coding easier.
My favorite article about why Scala is not complex is by Martin Odersky, the father of Scala: http://lamp.epfl.ch/~odersky/blogs/isscalacomplex.html. But there's one problem with it, it appeals to those already in favor of Scala.
I think Scala *is* complex. Some due to the functional concepts that are foreign to the Java world, some due to the requirement to work inside the JVM (and CLR). In fact, I was against Scala since 2006, because then I tried to learn it and found the syntax awkward. I recently had to start using it because a client required me to and haven't looked back since.
Ok, so now to the actual post, why should you use Scala: because some parts of it make programming easier even for novices:
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