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Re:Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app... by nl on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @06:17AM (#19857461)
Google vs Oracle isn't "no problems"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....

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Re:Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app... by yorwba on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @06:23AM (#19857499)
As far as I can tell, Oracle vs Google was due to Google not using OpenJDK, but their own implementation.
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Re:Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app... by dragandj on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @07:35AM (#19857845)
Moreover, their implementation didn’t work on standard compliand JVMs, and was called Java, despite being only similar to Java. Even Microsoft’s J++ worked on different JVMs if you didn’d use Windows specific classes...
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