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The problem with gargantuan languages like Scala and C++ is not that some people will try to use every feature, but that everybody will use a slightly different subset.

Most reasonable people will agree on using a subset of the language but few will agree on what goes into that subset :)

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> Most reasonable people will agree on using a subset of the language but few will agree on what goes into that subset :)

Why is that a problem? Different people/teams will have different needs.

If I'm working on a problem where generics is a good fit and bob across the office is working on more business code where it isn't a good fit then it makes sense that we would both be using a different subset of the language.

I need to understand all of the features to understand both your code and Bob's, especially when they interact. The point of "using a subset of a language" is having less feature interactions to understand.

Flip side is languages with such a small intellectual footprint that the moment that the problem domain / workloads shift a bit you are forced to switch to a different language.

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