>With all that said, the church of FP and the hascalator community is a problem for Scala. Overly dogmatic & academic functional programming styles don't have a place in production systems.
Isn't Scala minus the problems you mentioned just Kotlin?
Isn't Scala minus the problems you mentioned just Kotlin?
Personally, being able to solve problems with the abstractions you can achieve within the language over adding very specific language features to solve them appeals to me more.
Having said that, Arrow has Option: https://arrow-kt.io/docs/apidocs/arrow-core-data/arrow.core/...
Honestly I prefer maybe monads to null coalescing