scala-xml

Martin Odersky is just a very nice guy and I get the impression that he isn't keen on saying "no", which is how you end up with a language that allows you to use xml tags inline (no longer supported in Scala 3), https://github.com/scala/scala-xml/wiki/Getting-started The "opinionated" Scala are the Typelevel and Zio stacks, which are very cool. The problem with the "better Java" approach is that although it has helped Scala's growth a lot, it has also made it susceptible to Kotlin. The Scala code that doesn't use the advanced type magic can be straightforwardly rewritten in Kotlin instead. Kotlin also stops your bored developers from building neat type abstractions that no one else understands. People who use Scala only has a "better Java" can now use Kotlin has a "better "better Java"".

People like to hate everything related to JS these days. But when I see libs like these I'm just very grateful for the person(s) who invented JSX [1]. And evenly for MSFT implementing it into TS as a first-class citizen. It's just so much more readable. Scala is the only other language I know of which has some kind of XML/HTML syntax support (scala.xml). (But it looks like it got removed. [2]) [1] https://reactjs.org/docs/introducing-jsx.html [2] https://github.com/scala/scala-xml