I went the other way, Scala to Kotlin[1], and that's kind of the way I look at it. Scala's a really, really neat experimental language with some awesome ideas, but the amount of work it so frequently entails is disheartening to deal with and the developer experience with Kotlin is so, so much better in both tooling and expectations.
If your stuff is awesome, you don't really have to justify it like this.
[1] - though these days I mostly just write Node with ES6 or TypeScript, because consistency of ecosystem between browser, mobile with React Native, and the backend is just way easier.
If your stuff is awesome, you don't really have to justify it like this.
[1] - though these days I mostly just write Node with ES6 or TypeScript, because consistency of ecosystem between browser, mobile with React Native, and the backend is just way easier.