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Thanks for your reply. You have a point, but there is to me still a difference between a "scratch-itch language created and a good biz model on top", and a "biz

by cies 6y ago

Thanks for your reply. You have a point, but there is to me still a difference between a "scratch-itch language created and a good biz model on top", and a "biz model that required a new language". There is some legal stuff going on as well: Java was being monetized by Oracle and Google needed a way out. This helps Kotlin a lot imho. When then free-Java case totally lost, Google allows all to move to Kotlin and IntelliJ has the code translator tool (and will prolly get bought by Google at some point).

pjmlp 6y ago
Google screwed Sun and had their opportunity to buy it. The Java ecosystem has dozens of JVM implementations. None of them have ever had a problem with either Sun or Oracle. Only Microsoft with their J++, and Google with their actions fragmenting the ecosystem for Java developers. Microsoft learned their lesson and are now a OpenJDK contributor. Time will come for Google as well. Switching to Kotlin doesn't remove the dependency on the Java world, unless they plan to rewrite everything in Kotlin/Native.