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>Kotlin:

>Some readers will question why this chapter doesn’t include Scala. Although it’s a language that has great support for concurrency, its original guiding philosophy was more centered in functional programming. Kotlin, however, which was inspired by Scala in a way, does have a specific focus on concurrency.

Something similar can be said about Kotlin: The main design goal is the two way interop with different platform APIs (JVM, JS, LLVM). And of course it has many features a modern general purpose language is expected to have. Specifically for asynchronous progamming it has coroutines. However, I think for asynchronous and parallel computing Scala and Clojure have more to offer...