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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by sinstein on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:08AM (#22254070)
One of the reason to not consider Kotlin would be lack of resources. We run Kotlin services on Production at work and whole writing and reading Kotlin is so much better than Java, finding ways to do things still means having to fall back on Java examples.

There are still resources available for Kotlin + Android development but non Android resources are very few.

The plus side is because of the First Class Support in Intellij Idea for Kotlin, I can always take Java snippets and have the IDE convert them to Kotlin.

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by gibolt on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:11AM (#22254371)
I would mostly disagree. You get all the Java solutions plus the Kotlin ones. Few languages have that much support.

Within ~2 years, native things will hopefully become sufficient, but the state now isn't gloom and doom.

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by pjmlp on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:08AM (#22255416)
That is exactly the biggest problem with guest languages, instead of being happy with what is already there, they duplicate the eco-system.

So now for every problem we need to consider Java + Guest Language idiomatic libraries + alternative build tools + alternative IDE, across the whole corporation.

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by damnyou on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:04AM (#22256452)
Yeah well, it's hard to be happy with what's already there when that's fucking Java.
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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by sinstein on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:22AM (#22254416)
We use a Dropwizard Application written in Kotlin and I have had a very hard time finding examples and tutorials and have had to translate from Java most of the time.

Ofcourse I am banking on resources improving with time.

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by davnicwil on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:44AM (#22256833)
Other than that, what's been your experience using kotlin with dropwizard? How would you compare it to Java?
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