There's rarely a need for a language with anything "new". There's a strong need for a language that brings the best ideas recently developed and puts them toge

There's rarely a need for a language with anything "new". There's a strong need for a language that brings the best ideas recently developed and puts them together in a new language that does not have baggage from the past, (e.g. D). I've never used Lombok or any other code generator with Java. I think the important features of Kotlin are: - Null checking - Proper lambda/function types - Not everything has to be a class - You can specify parameter name when passing to functions: specially useful when constructing objects. - Simplified constructors (member fields can be specified in the argument list). These were some of my biggest pet peeves with Java. That, and the weird stream APIs.