Kotlin is just Scala with a few most advanced features taken out with no good replacement. It is not even really much faster in compilation speed when you account for its verbosity [1] and it has worse IDE support limited to just one IDE. Jetbrains is not interested in supporting other IDEs than its own. So what is so much more pragmatic about it?
Also there is no decline in Scala usage, and Kotlin doesn't exist outside its Android niche really. So "taking by storm" is a wishful thinking.
Also there is no decline in Scala usage, and Kotlin doesn't exist outside its Android niche really. So "taking by storm" is a wishful thinking.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34615947/why-does-kotlin...