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by furrydog 3226 days ago
> I wonder why Kotlin beat Scala in this virtual programming language traction game.

The article shows google search traffic for Kotlin which temporarily spiked above Scala in the wake of the Android announcement and then dropped back down to less than half the Scala traffic, below Groovy in fact. I'm not sure that it's much of an indicator of anything.

Also of interest:

https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-scala-q-kotlin.html