This is a good list, and this is why Scala for Android was a no starter. The huge standard library and awkward conversions with Java made it an expensive cost o

This is a good list, and this is why Scala for Android was a no starter. The huge standard library and awkward conversions with Java made it an expensive cost on early phones (and probably still today). Kotlin also side steps the big standard library by using inline functions a lot (in addition to the mentioned advantage if extending existing Java classes). To really appreciate Kotlin’s design, one should know some Scala.