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I do not agree with you. Scala is a mostly functional language, and Kotlin is mostly imperative. How is that fixing Scala? They are two different languages, and Kotlin being newer, is inspired by, among others, Scala.
This Ted gives some good examples https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_how_your_brain_hallucina...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-swf-tax/norways-we...
Apple and Samsung need to provide a worldwide infrastructure for handling requests from law enforcement all around the world (also in the less liberal regimes). How secure can this process really be by now. It doesn't matter that the coppers cannot reuse the exploits, they will just request and receive a new one instantly.
Now criminals also have access to these services, since we now police corruption is a thing.