[gavinking]

"Another way to look at it is that Ceylon was designed to appeal to Scala people"

This is quite clearly not true, and yet another assertion that you just made up and stated as fact. We're Java not Scala developers, and we designed Ceylon for other people like us. Don't try to tell me what my own motivations were.

In fact, it's very difficult to imagine, even charitably, why you would possibly be motivated to make such a claim unless you were deliberately trying to spread misinformation.

[pron]

Yes, I did make that bit up. In fact, I misspoke, and I apologize -- that statement was wrong. What I really wanted to say is that Kotlin would appeal more to Java people while Ceylon would appeal more to Scala people, and even that is made up, but I still think it's true. How did I come to such an outrageous conclusion? By reading (with great interest and enjoyment!) blog posts by you about type functions in Ceylon. A fascinating topic (and Ceylon's handling of it is very elegant), but one which -- I believe -- appeals more to those who place much importance on such type-based high-order abstractions in their language, and less to those drawn to "blue-collar" languages.