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I have, it's definitely an interesting language, more ambitious than Kotlin and more bold too (lot of new keywords, disjointed types, etc...).

I prefer the most conservative, slightly incremental Kotlin myself, but it's purely personal and certainly not a knock on Ceylon, which was implemented by people I have a lot of respect for.

> most people are excited for kotlin, but no one is really talking about ceylon

Perhaps that should be "most Groovy people are excited for Kotlin". The reason "Groovers" look at Kotlin before Ceylon could be because Groovy creator James Strachan and Groovy++ creator Alex Tkachman jumped over to Kotlin.

I have experienced exactly the opposite of this. Nobody seems interested in using Kotlin, while I think it is pretty neat.