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Re:Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library by jorgemf on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:57PM (#13478061)
Well, it is broadly used by Android developers. For me Kotlin is above scala just because the tooling support (JetBrains the main developers of kotlin), and I find a big difference when writting kotlin and scala. I feel scala more difficult to read, while kotlin is just a pleasure to read code. Moreover you can mix java and kotlin in the same project without issues.

Why do you think it will be behind scala?

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Re:Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library by chinhodado on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:44PM (#13478604)
I don't mean to say it will be behind Scala, I just mean to say that it will end up in the same situation as Scala, a language that was meant to be a "better Java" but could never gain enough traction to take off.
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Re:Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library by jorgemf on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:05AM (#13478702)
When I used Scala I never though it would be better than java, just another alternative. But I think kotlin is better than java. I hope it gains traction but not sure about it.
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