Comment by tasuki

You can write boring code in Scala, but in my (limited) experience, Scala developers don't want to write boring code. Guilty as charged!

> They picked Scala not because it was the best tool for the job, but because they were bored and wanted to flex their skills.

Guilty as charged!

> Disregarding the other 95% of programmers that would have to work with it.

No. Your coworkers end up being the other 5% of programmers that have the same taste as you. Interviewers ask about monads and lenses. It's fine, as long as everyone is on the same page. Which... they kind of have to be.