I'm on one of the larger Scala teams in the U.S and have used it for quite a few years. In short, Scala is a much more powerful and expressive language (than K

I'm on one of the larger Scala teams in the U.S and have used it for quite a few years. In short, Scala is a much more powerful and expressive language (than Kotlin) that let's you write very functional code. Most on our team would consider programming in Kotlin a huge regression, as it's not really geared for functional programming. Here's a previous post where I talk about the pros and cons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837782