"Kotlin should pick up some steam once a stable release comes around, they've done a good job cherry picking the best of Scala while avoiding the kitchen sink b

"Kotlin should pick up some steam once a stable release comes around, they've done a good job cherry picking the best of Scala while avoiding the kitchen sink baggage" I disagree. They picked mostly the easy features like lambdas or null-safety, while they deliberately left out the game-changing features like implicits or type-classes. So Kotlin is just a better Java, with the amount of "betterness" significantly reduced now by Java 8.