<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gibolt</author><text>I started using Kotlin daily about 8 months ago.&lt;p&gt;Recently had to go back to an older Android codebase, and immediately decided I had to start converting.&lt;p&gt;The amount of boilerplate is unbelievable. I&amp;#x27;m able to cut the number of lines by half while increasing readability. Type&amp;#x2F;null safety is a huge added bonus&lt;p&gt;P.S. Kotlin extensions are the best</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM</title><url>https://snyk.io/blog/kotlin-overtakes-scala-and-clojure-to-become-the-2nd-most-popular-language-on-the-jvm/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>insulanian</author><text>I was surprised to see that Clojure scored better than Scala. Is Scala loosing its appeal? Did Dotty scare people away, because it smells like Python 2 vs 3?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM</title><url>https://snyk.io/blog/kotlin-overtakes-scala-and-clojure-to-become-the-2nd-most-popular-language-on-the-jvm/</url></story>