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Well you probably already know this, but I think Google is promoting Kotlin over Groovy because of their association with JetBrains. I'm sure if Google develope

Well you probably already know this, but I think Google is promoting Kotlin over Groovy because of their association with JetBrains. I'm sure if Google developed Android Studio from scratch instead of using JetBrains IDE as the basis for Android Studio, maybe they would have chosen Groovy. So yeah, they just as easily could have chosen to add official support for the Groovy programming language and achieved the same goal of making Android development easier.

vorg 9y ago
> I'm sure if Google developed Android Studio from scratch, [...] maybe they would have chosen Groovy I'm sure they would have also developed the build language from scratch also, and I doubt it would have been as cluttered as Apache Groovy. Check out the Groovy developers mailing list [1] to see how inactive Groovy development is nowadays. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/groovy-dev/201705.mbox/browser http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/groovy-dev/201705.m...