> JetBrains also wants to make Kotlin target every platform under the sun
replySo did Scala long before. It's just that Kotlin got a lot more traction for different reasons.
Not to the same extent. Scala.JS and Kotlin.JS are somewhat comparable, other targets not so much. There was no serious attempt at making Scala target mobile devices, even during the window of opportunity with Scala on Android.
reply> even during the window of opportunity with Scala on Android.
replyI don't understand this. You can run any pure Java jar on Android, pretty sure you can do that with Scala too? It's not exactly a "different platform" in terms of programming language. Sure it needs tooling and specific libraries, but that's higher level than the programming language.
Jetbrains is doing interop with Swift (Kotlin -> ObjC -> Swift and more recently Kotlin -> C -> Swift), which Scala never did. But I don't really see how this is relevant in this conversation.