> People whose favourite language is Go, will probably not move to Scala (and vice versa). Kotlin vs Scala is an easier to understand competition. That said, i

> People whose favourite language is Go, will probably not move to Scala (and vice versa). Kotlin vs Scala is an easier to understand competition. That said, in terms of language features and type system, Kotlin is arguably closer to Go than it is to Scala. Yes, Kotlin competes with Scala on the JVM, but it's a very different language. Scala is much closer to a language such as OCaml than it is to Kotlin.