> People are going TO Kotlin as opposed to the usually Ocaml/F#/Haskell/Idris/Agda world of the community trying to bring people in. The familiarity of C-style

> People are going TO Kotlin as opposed to the usually Ocaml/F#/Haskell/Idris/Agda world of the community trying to bring people in. The familiarity of C-style syntax and object orientation immediately places Kotlin above ML-style programming languages from the standpoint of adoption. It's a bit unfortunate that this is the case, but selling Android developers on a better C-style OO language than Java is a lot easier than selling them on something different.