[virtualwhys]

Well, no, Scala took inspiration from various languages of decades past and combined them together into an modern OO/FP hybrid.

Kotlin copied Scala directly, renaming `def` to `fun`, `case` to `data` and so on. There's a big difference between creating and copying.

Anyway, in hindsight it was a great idea to cherry pick from Scala as the language seems poised for much bigger things (i.e. potentially becoming a mainstream language).