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Go was written for servers, Kotlin for mobile apps. Seems an obvious choice really.

by tus88 7y ago

endorphone 7y ago
Kotlin is just a less verbose, more modern language targeting the JVM. It has nothing to do with mobile apps beyond that Google, much later, decided to support it for Android development. Go is an efficient platform, however in these switches it usually goes something like "we took something hugely overbuilt, with layers and layers and layers and abstractions and abstractions, and rebuilt it with minimalist Go and now it's faster", which, of course it is.
hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
> Go was written for servers, Kotlin for mobile apps. Not really. Kotlin was just a better JVM language developed by the JetBrains folks before Google adopted it as a first class Android language, but I don't believe it was specifically developed for mobile initially.
- dehrmann 7y ago
  The open question is if Java will start borrowing the best features from Kotlin and it will become less relevant (like Scala). To Kotlin's credit, it has better IDE support, it feels simpler than Java (whereas Scala feels more complex), and it cleans up a lot of fundamental language issues that Java can't get away from.
sosodev 7y ago
I wouldn’t say that Kotlin was written for mobile apps. JetBrains, the company that created Kotlin, doesn’t even have mobile apps AFAIK. It’s just meant to be a more modern JVM language and that means it does anything Java does just better. Servers included.
xwowsersx 7y ago
I don't think that's true. You're confusing the fact that Kotlin has become the officially supported language for Android development with the idea that it was written for mobile apps.
lloydde 7y ago
You may be confusing the adoption of Kotlin for Android. That happened more recently Kotlin has been open source since 2012 and designed as a direct (compatible) replacement for Java.
joshbaptiste 7y ago
The only thing I see where Golang wins over the JVM is overall memory usage for daemons.. As Khan is non-profit they want to save at any avenue.

Go was written for servers, Kotlin for mobile apps. Seems an obvious choice really.

by tus88 7y ago

Go was written for servers, Kotlin for mobile apps. Seems an obvious choice really.

Kotlin is just a less verbose, more modern language targeting the JVM. It has nothing to do with mobile apps beyond that Google, much later, decided to support it for Android development. Go is an efficient platform, however in these switches it usually goes something like "we took something hugely overbuilt, with layers and layers and layers and abstractions and abstractions, and rebuilt it with minimalist Go and now it's faster", which, of course it is.

hn_throwaway_99 7y ago

> Go was written for servers, Kotlin for mobile apps. Not really. Kotlin was just a better JVM language developed by the JetBrains folks before Google adopted it as a first class Android language, but I don't believe it was specifically developed for mobile initially.

dehrmann 7y ago
The open question is if Java will start borrowing the best features from Kotlin and it will become less relevant (like Scala). To Kotlin's credit, it has better IDE support, it feels simpler than Java (whereas Scala feels more complex), and it cleans up a lot of fundamental language issues that Java can't get away from.

sosodev 7y ago

I wouldn’t say that Kotlin was written for mobile apps. JetBrains, the company that created Kotlin, doesn’t even have mobile apps AFAIK. It’s just meant to be a more modern JVM language and that means it does anything Java does just better. Servers included.

xwowsersx 7y ago

I don't think that's true. You're confusing the fact that Kotlin has become the officially supported language for Android development with the idea that it was written for mobile apps.

lloydde 7y ago

You may be confusing the adoption of Kotlin for Android. That happened more recently Kotlin has been open source since 2012 and designed as a direct (compatible) replacement for Java.

joshbaptiste 7y ago

The only thing I see where Golang wins over the JVM is overall memory usage for daemons.. As Khan is non-profit they want to save at any avenue.