I have been using Scala in Production for 5 years - microservices to streaming to batch jobs. I recently started working on Kotlin. Kotlin is the better Java th

I have been using Scala in Production for 5 years - microservices to streaming to batch jobs. I recently started working on Kotlin. Kotlin is the better Java than Scala and is much easier for someone to pick up. And like you mentioned, Scala is very easy to mess up. Scala the good parts is tough to initially identify and work with, and one might as well pick up Kotlin if they are not into functional programming.