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Re:IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android ... by eranation on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @11:21AM (#6888409)
Has anyone tried using Kotlin for Android development? (it's supposed to be lower runtime footprint than Scala, and it is officially supported by Jetbrains [1])

[1] http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2013/08/working-with-kotlin...

Re:IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android ... by ajselvig on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:39PM (#6896184)
Kotlin works well for Android development. The annotations have gotten better recently, too, so you can interact with Android classes without too many null checks.