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OP reeks of subjectivity.

"Scala is a rugged, expressive, strictly superior replacement for Java."

I have nothing for or against Scala, and Java is a popular target. But "strictly superior"? There are critiques of the language and its toolset that contradict the strictness of its superiority. (https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-criticisms-of-Scala)

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I think "strictly superior" makes sense in the way that Scala was never designed or intended to be a worse-is-better language like Java and people were willing to make that happen by evolving the language. It was never intended to be a Java-with-more-concise-syntax unlike some other newer languages.

If something was clearly worse, it would have been changed years ago already. That some design is still there might suggest that some people just have a different minority opinion on some aspects. (Assuming that "strictly superior" does not mean "100% of devs agree 100% that this is 100% better than Java".)

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