Re:Proposed schedule change for JDK 9
by premium-concern on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:22AM
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That's kind of nonsense. Kotlin adds some syntax sugar to Java, but it's not related to Scala in any reasonable way.
It may not be supported by Google but it was created by Jetbrains, the developer of Ideaide which is what Android Studio is based on, so it's support is top notch.
The best part of Kotlin is there is near zero cost to using it. You can learn it in a day and is fully interoperable with Java. :)