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Re:From First Principles: Why Scala? by brabel on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:19PM (#26105146)
> Lots of folks would love Scala codebases that only use 10% of the available language features and none of the complex frameworks.

They already do it: it's called Kotlin.

Re:From First Principles: Why Scala? by ta988 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:36PM (#26110508)
On the other hand Kotlin devs can also be really conservative in what they let creep into the language. But that's what I like about the language, it doesn't try to please everybody and that create a somewhat more rigid frame in which I'm more comfortable expressing myself.