Scala was the second programming language I learned (the first was Java). I think I'm quite lucky to have picked up a language like Scala so early in my programming journey. It made it very easy for me to learn new programming languages, since it made it easy to support wildly different paradigms (which is also what makes it hard to use in an enterprise environment).

yeah, you get everything and the kitchen sink with Scala. Which is actually IMO its biggest weakness. It wants to be everything, and it isn't amazing at anything as a result.