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All great points. Specially:

> Kotlin and Scala use seems to be motivated mostly by vaguely hipster-y annoyance with Java 8.

Now that I think about it they seem like Instagram of language/code/devs. Mostly obsessed on surface level, superficial syntax features. IMO it is great in same sense as cooking with meal kit cooking is superior to cooking with grocery shopping.




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