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That assumes that Java is the only funnel for Scala. Sure, Kotlin likely now captures more of the people trying to get out of Java, but how many people does it
by saosebastiao 9y ago
That assumes that Java is the only funnel for Scala. Sure, Kotlin likely now captures more of the people trying to get out of Java, but how many people does it capture with backgrounds in Haskell, OCaml, Lisp, R, Python/Pandas, or any other language for that matter?
- twic 9y agoAren't there so few people with backgrounds like that (Python aside) that it doesn't really matter?
- saosebastiao 9y agoNo? I came to Scala from R and Clojure. The point is that Kotlin has pigeonholed itself into being a language for people who can't stand Java. Scala is partially that, but it is also vying for the attention of anybody who does object oriented programming, anybody who does functional programming, anybody that cares about type safety, etc. The idea that Kotlin is hurting Scala adoption rests on the assumption that the only people who would ever adopt Scala are the people who are trying to get rid of Java.