My org had to write a pivotal backend service on the JVM, due to JDBC having the largest number of data source adapters. The choice was Kotlin. Scala is too "p

My org had to write a pivotal backend service on the JVM, due to JDBC having the largest number of data source adapters. The choice was Kotlin. Scala is too "powerful" and can be written in a style that is difficult for others, and Java too verbose. Kotlin is instantly familiar to modern TypeScript/Swift/Rust etc devs. The only negative in my mind has been IntelliJ being the only decent IDE, but even this has changed recently with Jetbrains releasing `kotlin-lsp` for VS Code https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-lsp https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-lsp