> "For those that are learning Scala just for the hell of it, great. But, don't intend to make a career out of it unless you've checked into other languages first, like Ruby, Python, Haskell, Go, Clojure, etc."
I did, and am currently making a career out of Scala.
> "Play v2 killed all chance of it becoming a decent web developer's go-to language"
We're quite happy with Play2, don't know why anyone would even consider picking Play v1 over it...