Java is not doomed—Myths EXPOSED! ;)
Scala looks great. I’m not as disillusioned with Java as some people seem to be, but I do regularly bump my head against it’s limitations, and often wish for being able to express the same things in a more compact fashion. Scala looks like a language to love. Compact, type-safe and fully interoperable with Java.
[...] As Nathan has written a rather long article, I’m not going to repeat him here. Check it out for yourself. If the book ever gets finished, I’ll look into Scala, just as Eelco promised. [...]