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emodendroket | karma 21781 | avg karma 1.83 · 2017-05-22 13:36:55

Which is neat, but unless you are a library designer it's probably not that much of a selling point.

xaduha | karma 1000 | avg karma 1.41 · 2017-05-22 14:26:19

Major selling point is the ability to mix Kotlin and Java freely.

I just find it funny how Scala guys are saying "me too" at every opportunity. But that always comes with an asterisk, if you look closely.

IDE support is as good, Java interop is as good, etc.

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emodendroket | karma 21781 | avg karma 1.83 · 2017-05-22 15:03:38

Sorry, I didn't realize you were personally invested.

xaduha | karma 1000 | avg karma 1.41 · 2017-05-22 15:14:31+00:00

Well I like and use Kotlin, that's the extent of it. Scala is a non-starter for me.

emodendroket | karma 21781 | avg karma 1.83 · 2017-05-22 16:11:39

How come? I started using it because my company did and I've found it pretty good, overall.

xaduha | karma 1000 | avg karma 1.41 · 2017-05-22 16:40:14+00:00

I started using Kotlin because the author of MapDB did

https://github.com/jankotek/mapdb

Scala was around for a long time, perhaps if I could look at it with fresh eyes now I would consider it, but somehow I always had a feeling that Scala isn't for me. And now as Kotlin gaining momentum I'd rather stick with Kotlin.

I want first class IDE support and straightforwardness in my workhorse languages. For hobby languages I'd rather play with something like Red or Perl 6.

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emodendroket | karma 21781 | avg karma 1.83 · 2017-05-22 16:44:49+00:00

I haven't tried Kotlin but Scala works with IntelliJ pretty well. I'd say it's pretty comparable to VS/R# with C#.