Re:Kotlin for JavaScript
by nsonha on Sunday March 27, 2022 @08:18AM
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sorry that's not it, Kotlin was created as a better Java, and is growing out of that niche. If it wasn't for Android, Kotlin is still a good back end language, especially with so much JVM stuff that isn't going anywhere soon out there.
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> If it wasn't for Android, Kotlin is still a good back end language
It certainly would. Like so many other JVM languages. Android is what makes kotlin stand out from that crowd.
Arguably "particularly well supported by IntelliJ" is another thing that makes kotlin stand out from the crowd, but that's a two-edged sword. I'd expect the average JVM person to see that as roughly a tie between a quality and a cost (more lock-in).
I don't see any alternative JVM language competing with Kotlin right now to even have options. Scala 3 is in a very different space. Before Kotlin 1, scala 3 was no where near release. I remember eclipse X10, which was like a "transpiler for java" but it wasn't as ambitious as Kotlin with multiplatform planned.