. . "We cannot move this mountain??? or more specifically, Scala is not better enough than anything else to allow shops to fire 50% of their less productive developers.So, the better courses of action would be to:Focus on the kinds of developers and projects that will get a 3x or more out of Scala; or; Improve Scala for the COTM developer (this is not going to happen as long as Scala is primarily a res" . . .