Oh the difference between Scala and Kotlin!

Everyone says “Scala and Kotlin are similar”, but is that actually true? There are indeed syntactical similarities, but there are many fundamental differences. Based on my experience using both Scala and Kotlin extensively at work, I would like to discuss how different these two languages are through the use of code examples.

This is also an opportunity to discuss some of the strange commonalities between these two distinct languages that are syntactically similar. We will also cover the functional programming libraries (Scala, Cats, Arrow) from both languages.

Session length

10 minutes

Language of the presentation

Japanese

Target audience

Beginner: No need to have prior knowledge

Who is your session intended to

Those who are considering using Kotlin
Those who think Kotlin is a copy of Scala
Those who are interested in the strenghs of Scala and Kotlin

Speaker

Yuichi Maekawa (ALP)

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