Scala's premature release
Back in August 2010, Martin Odersky raised eyebrows by stating that " Scala is foremost an industrial language ". We commented on this triumph of hope over reality at the time, citing Scala's poor IDE support as a major headache for industrial users that had deterred us from adopting this academically-interesting programming language. This rookie mistake of marketing a product months before it is ready is all too common. Several of our young client companies made the same mistake. One had even been paying an entire sales division not only salaries but bonuses for over a year before their first product was released! The problem is not just the wasted marketing effort but that potential customers are deterred by their bad experiences with the immature product. This is reflected in Jonathan Edwards' recent article " Switching to Plan J ", where he writes: " My experiment with Scala is not working out. It’s just not ready for prime time... " - Jonatha...