The two aren't incompatible. Progress tends to be made of revolutionary jumps followed by evolutionary refinements. It's perfectly legitimate and useful for Kot

The two aren't incompatible. Progress tends to be made of revolutionary jumps followed by evolutionary refinements. It's perfectly legitimate and useful for Kotlin to fall firmly under the "evolutionary refinement" category, and we can all reap the rewards of that evolution, while other teams elsewhere are trying for the revolutionary jump.