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Re:Kotlin: statically typed programming language that compil... by pron on Saturday December 29, 2012 @07:55PM (#4984066)
Because Scala is a mess of a kitchen-sink language, a heap of both practical and academic features, a lot of sound and fury with no clear purpose or aim, and absolutely no opinions; it's the "yeah, why not? we'll throw that in, too"-language.

Most people who use Scala, use it simply as a better Java. Well, Kotlin is that better Java they've actually been looking for all along. And for anyone looking for a truly modern, opinionated language -- there's Clojure.

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Re:Kotlin: statically typed programming language that compil... by reeses on Sunday December 30, 2012 @01:26AM (#4984891)
With Scala, it's often inconvenient when leaning how quickly code can become not just deprecated, but uncompilable because of the culture of whim.

Most people who end up hating Scala (or at least ruling out its use) seem to be unhappy with the tooling (mainly compile times or out of date IDE modules), rate of language change (either scala or even worse, scalaz), or the inconsistency of interfaces.

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