What is cool about Scala?

Question

Scala

Hello gentlemen.
I recently started learning Scala. Generally speaking, it can come in handy for me at work, but the main goal for now is just to play.
Scala is very cool, at first glance. So far, this is the first language with static typing, which is immediately clear to me and does not cause difficulties. Well, the set of features is cool: JVM, meta-programming, monads, a bunch of libraries.
Now I want to write hellowords. I want to know what can be interesting to see in the language. What kind of things did you like? While mastered object model and modules. What else to see? Throw off features / articles / interesting libraries (:

Answer 1

akka

Answer 2

Recently here appeared www.scala-js.org/ a kind of answer to clojurescript

Answer 3

lectures by Odersky and a course on coursera (the second one is currently in progress, but it's too late to register)

Answer 4

There is a bit about libraries here.

Answer 5

Do not be too lazy to spend a few days: habrahabr.ru/post/209532
To the heap:
- as already mentioned, akka - actor model
- play framework - RoR-like framework
- scala.js - so far the question is "why?" remains open
- all sorts of "built-in" concepts of the language itself are very cool!

Answer 6

twitter.github.io/scala_school/en/index.html