That's pretty much what I think every time he spends time on his anti-Scala rants.

Maybe he should switch the language? Looking at Lift's source code/API this is pretty much a abuse of the language.

He's one of the few true Scala experts around (how many can claim they've been using Scala for more than five years?).

The code he writes is probably as idiomatic Scala as it can get.

Yet another reason why people should be wary.

No he is a scala early adopter. There is a big difference. I have less and less respect for the man the more I look at Lift. In fact after I started working with Play and their scala support I have and even better sense that he is just a java developer who found a new way to manipulate XML files.

We're not discussing Lift nor his design skills.

We're talking about his level of expertise in Scala, which is probably one of the highest in the community.