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That's interesting, because weren't Kotlin and Ceylon created because people wanted to have "just a better Java", which Scala is not really interested in being?

> they realized that almost all of the features are available

Interesting too. Looking at the stuff I'm currently doing, there is plenty of stuff which is just impossible in Java.

By the way, isn't "Scala has such a nice type system that it blows out OCaml from the water" already the case?

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> weren't Kotlin and Ceylon created because people wanted to have "just a better Java", which Scala is not really interested in being?

Scala was that at first. Arguably that's still Typesafe's primary interest.

> By the way, isn't "Scala has such a nice type system that it blows out OCaml from the water" already the case?

Yes and no. It's more featureful (higher-kinded types are really nice), but less elegant and type inference works less well (in part because scala has both inheritance and typeclasses).

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