Voat is the edgy but trending option in the social bookmarking galaxy and Scala is all the rage right now in the big data and machine learning world. So, how many of you works on Scala? On the "other site" the community has always been against Scala, first because they thought it was just a fad, then because the compiler was slow and in the end because they couldn't wrap their minds around the Scala's type system despite it being really simple compared to other languages.

How's the situation here? Is this community functional-friendly? Do you talk about monads when you flirt with a girl?