They were talking scooters, they are a huge pain in the ass with people leaving it in the middle of sidewalk, riding like maniacs, often drunk (especially tourists).
Most existing anti-air systems are easily saturated by volleys of cruise missiles, as was the Ukrainian air defence (which is in a better shape than that of most european countries).
Scala had a separate hierarchy of collections as well IIRC (and their entire collection thing seemed like a much better design than what Java did, admittedly with years of learning from Java's mistakes)
They take liability seriously? How many outright frauds and data leaks are swept under the table?
If you like to work in extremely low trust companies, you do you. If somebody trusts me to write production code but not to pick text editors, they are morons with red tape wrapped around their eyes.
