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Re:JDK 19 Release Notes by nradov on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:27AM (#32910741)
Kotlin is certainly a good general purpose language. But many developers would prefer to be able to use Java for Android development including the excellent tool chain and numerous libraries. It's a shame that commercial disputes between Google and Oracle have left us with this fragmented platform.
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Re:JDK 19 Release Notes by pjmlp on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:22AM (#32911298)
Kotlin is still heavily dependent on Java ecosystem, so this excuse is nonsense, there is hardly any Kotlin without Java.

See how sucessfull Kotlin/JS and Kotlin/Native are on the wild.

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Re:JDK 19 Release Notes by Strum355 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:32AM (#32910781)
> the excellent toolchain and numerous libraries

The same libraries that can be used from Kotlin?

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Re:JDK 19 Release Notes by pjmlp on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:22AM (#32911294)
Only if they can be usable from ART capabilities, and desugared into DEX opcodes.
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Re:JDK 19 Release Notes by cies on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:43AM (#32910880)
> the excellent toolchain and numerous libraries

The toolchain in both cases is basically IntelliJ (rebranded as Adroid Studio)

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Re:JDK 19 Release Notes by Alupis on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:35AM (#32913193)
Give Kotlin an honest try. I think you will be impressed... and that's coming from a crusty old curmudgeon "get off my compiler" java fanboy.
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