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Scala is a great language. I haven't done that coursera course, but many people swear by it.

To me, Swift and Kotlin look like they have taken inspiration from Scala. I think Kotlin explicitly did. That idea transfer from one area to another is how we get better langauges.



Having programmed professionally in both Scala, and Swift, and enjoyed both, I can see basically nothing that Swift takes from Scala.

The common ancestor is OCaml, and the ML languages in general.

To be fair, that may change as Swift adopts Actor based concurrency.




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