Kotlin is nice, but to me it's mostly just 'different', not necessarily an 'advantage'. Without Android adoption (and G did this specifically because of Oracle

Kotlin is nice, but to me it's mostly just 'different', not necessarily an 'advantage'. Without Android adoption (and G did this specifically because of Oracle issues) I don't think anyone would really be using it. Outside of Android, it's not a big thing. I've gone Java to Kotlin and back again simply because the few advantages to Kotlin just aren't worth the phase shift. FYI almost every single code example in Android has Kotlin and Java the same length. It's not really any shorter or more concise in the end. I wish Kotlin well, and it's a great example of how the JVM can be leveraged. The JVM is probably Java's greatest foundational asset, which is why Graal has such potential, if Oracle doesn't screw it up ...