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Re:Scala 2.12 roadmap by EdwardDiego on Saturday February 13, 2016 @04:28AM (#11093360)
It's a trivial conversion from Java to Kotlin, as opposed to Scala or Clojure, so I wouldn't expect people to be hiring explicitly for it.

And the fact that 1.0 RC was just released this month might tell you other reasons why. How many Scala jobs did you see advertised when 1.0 was released in 2004?

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Re:Scala 2.12 roadmap by lmm on Saturday February 13, 2016 @05:27AM (#11093456)
I wouldn't've described Scala as "gaining momentum" in 2004 either. Kotlin may eventually be successful (I don't think it should be; IMO Ceylon does everything that Kotlin does and does it better, but that's just, like, my opinion man), but the present hype is certainly premature.
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Re:Scala 2.12 roadmap by EdwardDiego on Sunday February 14, 2016 @11:56PM (#11101597)
I agree - Kotlin is gaining momentum in hype. Give it a couple of years and we'll see how it actually moves. Ceylon does not do Java interop as well as Kotlin does, IMO.
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