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> Of course it did, Google is making that decision a reality. It was already hyped up and rapidly gaining popularity for Android devs prior to Google endorsing
by TulliusCicero 6y ago
> Of course it did, Google is making that decision a reality.
It was already hyped up and rapidly gaining popularity for Android devs prior to Google endorsing it. That's why Google endorsed it.
> On the JVM, Kotlin doesn't matter, it is just another language that pretends to be Java when compiled to Java Virtual Machine bytecode.
I mean sure, but this applies to replacing Java elsewhere too.
- pjmlp 6y agoScala and XTend were being hyped the same way. If Google wasn't playing dirty, they would have kept updating Android Java to be in line with Java, and let the developers choose. Instead, they purposely stagnate Android Java on a Java 8 subset, let the Android marketing machine push Kotlin over Medium articles, Twitter blog posts, YouTube Android developers channel, Android developer blog posts, MAD training material. And lets not forget the role of JetBrains, having had a role replacing Eclipse with InteliJ in what concerns Android Studio, now they even dropped support for Eclipse on their Kotlin support, as they are quite open that they want to use Kotlin to drive InteliJ license sales. Kotlin is just another flavour of CoffeeScript in what concerns the JVM.