People are still asking for examples, not for some popularity vote on feelings.
(Also, the designer of one of the languages mentioned was completely unaware of Scala when he created his own.)
(Also, the designer of one of the languages mentioned was completely unaware of Scala when he created his own.)
The person is James Strachan, he created Groovy. Since then, he abandoned Scala and he's now a committer on Kotlin (or was, not sure if he still is, he tends to bounce around projects a lot).