I think this summarizes really well why I never became a Scala developer and am now a Kotlin programmer. I like Kotlin. It solves problems I had as a Java programmer in a way that is easy to understand. It's easy to move from one to the other. Tools are great. Documentation is great. Etc.
Based on this talk, it's not likely I'll ever become a Scala developer.
For reference, I learned FP in the nineties while in university; was exposed to monads, and a few haskell dialects (Gopher mainly). Been doing Java for about 20+ years at this point as well. However, despite this background I have trouble wrapping my head around Scala. The documentation seems to require a phd, which I have, just not in esoteric type system kungfoo. I find most Scala code completely unreadable. I admit, it's me. I'm probably too stupid or something. But if I'm too stupid, then most people I work with are definitely not smart enough either. So, that in a nutshell is why I ended up doing Kotlin instead.
Based on this talk, it's not likely I'll ever become a Scala developer.
For reference, I learned FP in the nineties while in university; was exposed to monads, and a few haskell dialects (Gopher mainly). Been doing Java for about 20+ years at this point as well. However, despite this background I have trouble wrapping my head around Scala. The documentation seems to require a phd, which I have, just not in esoteric type system kungfoo. I find most Scala code completely unreadable. I admit, it's me. I'm probably too stupid or something. But if I'm too stupid, then most people I work with are definitely not smart enough either. So, that in a nutshell is why I ended up doing Kotlin instead.