> "If Oracle is 'poisoning Java', Kotlin's not the answer. Surely, it'd be a language totally independent of Oracle, wouldn't it?" No, the answer lies in compa

> "If Oracle is 'poisoning Java', Kotlin's not the answer. Surely, it'd be a language totally independent of Oracle, wouldn't it?" No, the answer lies in companies that want to invest in OpenJDK, like Red Hat / IBM, to take away the stewardship of Java from Oracle and for us to move to distributions maintained by the community and not by Oracle. See: https://adoptopenjdk.net/ https://adoptopenjdk.net/ OpenJDK being GPLv2, the genie can't be put back in the bottle. This situation is precisely what Open Source is for: the ability to fork if you're not happy with the maintainers. Without that ability you're not talking about open source. Also languages like Kotlin and Scala are a step in the right direction, because it means that the ecosystem is not dependent on Oracle for language improvements. But yes, I agree with the sentiment. Kotlin isn't a breakup with Java, only a breakup with Oracle.