> Why bother to use it and add one more step for translation to a compiler chain that is already very slow. I think you have a misconception about how Kotlin a

> Why bother to use it and add one more step for translation to a compiler chain that is already very slow. I think you have a misconception about how Kotlin and Scala are compiled. Java source code is not generated by either of these compilers -- they both compile directly to .class files, just like javac does. There is no extra step, just a different step.