Clojure and Kotlin are two very different languages. I don’t see anyone making the broad statements you are calling out.

No, of course not.

I misread

> Syntactic sugar does not solve programming problems. Kotlin does not offer any paradigm changes which could make switch worth it.

and

> Also, java 8 and above is getting a lot leaner to use, api, linguistics .. so the gap with clojure is a bit less than before.