Scala & Kotlin Comparison, What Kotlin Can (Graciously) Steal from Scala [KKON 2024 talk]
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This video is a conference talk that I gave at Rheinwerk Konference für Kotlin (KKON) 2024. We talk about how Kotlin was inspired from Scala and what Kotlin can still get from Scala's enormous expression capabilities; or, phrased differently, how Scala can enable mental models that Kotlin cannot (yet).
Timeline:
0:00 How Kotlin was inspired by Scala
3:36 Pattern Matching
6:06 Contextual Abstractions
25:05 Higher-Kinded Types
34:09 Programs as Values
38:38 Conclusions
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