All great points. Specially: > Kotlin and Scala use seems to be motivated mostly by vaguely hipster-y annoyance with Java 8. Now that I think about it they se

All great points. Specially: > Kotlin and Scala use seems to be motivated mostly by vaguely hipster-y annoyance with Java 8. Now that I think about it they seem like Instagram of language/code/devs. Mostly obsessed on surface level, superficial syntax features. IMO it is great in same sense as cooking with meal kit cooking is superior to cooking with grocery shopping.