That has not been my experience. I just wrote a script to compute my stats for the last 10 years. I did roughly 20,000 lines of code per year (this is not counting comments and empty lines, if that is included then this goes up to 35,000 lines). Oh, and I prefer VIM to Eclipse :D.
But using LOC as a measure of work quality or suitability for learning another language is really ludicrous. I would really hope that most people in the industry and Java programmers in particular are capable of learning Scala. I like to think that suitability of the language for a task is a quality of a language not the programmer. Yes, all languages in use are Turing complete, but some are better suited for certain tasks. The question we should be asking is what kinds of projects Scala excels at, and what kinds of applications is it really good for?
But using LOC as a measure of work quality or suitability for learning another language is really ludicrous. I would really hope that most people in the industry and Java programmers in particular are capable of learning Scala. I like to think that suitability of the language for a task is a quality of a language not the programmer. Yes, all languages in use are Turing complete, but some are better suited for certain tasks. The question we should be asking is what kinds of projects Scala excels at, and what kinds of applications is it really good for?