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		pas on Jan 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages It reminds me of Scala too, but I have no idea which started when. And of course both could have come up with this fairly independently. (After all it is the norm in functional style.)

still_grokking on Jan 8, 2023 [–]

Almost all Kotlin features are Scala rip offs.

Kotlin was started even as just a poor Scala clone. (Because JetBrains didn't manage to get a working Scala plugin for their IDE, so they thought it would be simpler to create their own "simpler" version of the language).

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