[frowaway001]

Which is kind of funny, because they are still playing catch-up with Scala.

(That's perfectly fine on its own, but doing the usual Scala-bashing at the same time as copying most of the language varbatim doesn't make the Kotlin team look any better.)

[vorg]

They've stated their decision not to copy certain features such as rampant operator overloading. Is this what you mean by "Scala-bashing"?

[frowaway001]

No. Scala has neither operator overloading nor any kind of rampant form of it.

[vorg]

In Scala you can define stuff like <*/+-> to mean anything you want. Are you perhaps arguing over my choice of words to describe this phenomena?

[frowaway001]

Yes. It's neither an operator nor are you overloading anything.

The whole point is that everything is just a bog-standard method and infix notation is a orthogonal notion, separate from a method's name.