Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 19:53:43 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> A counterexample is Go, which has gotten a lot of traction 
>> with a simple
>> syntax.
>
> It has more to do with Google than with the language's design.

That, and being perceived as a http-server-language and having 
standard libraries and a threading model geared towards web 
servers.

In addition Go has managed to improve the C syntax by removing 
in-most-cases redundant syntax. Which is quite nice for 
readability, IMO.