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by jlund-molfese 1308 days ago
Well, C and Scala are some counter examples that immediately come to mind.

Kotlin is probably more similar to Java than any other mainstream language. There’s almost no learning curve there, while going from Java to other “easy” languages like Python requires significantly more time to get used to.
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Milner08 1308 days ago
Scala it depends how you want to use it. If you're going for full FP then sure it can take a little bit longer, but you can also just use it like Java+ if you really want...
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Kamq 1308 days ago
I think there's a difference here between getting acclimated to scala (for new code, presumably), which is reasonably easy, and getting acclimated to a scala codebase that was already written by someone else.

You can do the first one basically the same way you'd do kotlin, the second one can get pretty hairy if someone decided to bring in a bunch of macro heavy DSLs and syntax extensions.

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