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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by gliop on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:02PM (#19883445)
Kotlin is a light syntax for a coding style. It's as easy for a Java dev to learn Kotlin as it is to learn Spring or Hibernate or whatever library or framework the team at your new job uses
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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by sonnyblarney on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:19PM (#19883528)
It's a whole other domain of things to learn, and now we're stuck with context switching all of the time.

Even if Kotline were 'better' (And I don't think it is), it'd have to be quite a jump better.

It's a little nicer for getting ideas down quickly, but beyond that to me it's just 'different' and now a whole other bag of things to support.

If I have to chose between Kotlin+Java or just Java I'll take just Java.

Going back to Java from Kotlin there's really nothing I miss.

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