I know scala is very powerful, but I think this code proofs to me that scala code is difficult to read. I'm a pro functional programmer, but scala mixes too many concepts.

'pseudo' Python url shorterner in 14 lines of code:

  from webapp2 import RequestHandler
  import redis

  def shorten_url(url):
    import base64
    return base64.encode(url)[:7]
  
  class Handler(RequestHandler):

    def get(self, path):
        self.redirect(redis.get(path))

    def post(self, path):
        redis.put(path, shorten_url(path))