Kotlin feels to me to be in an odd spot. Java really has the incredible last mover advantage and it keeps making the right decisions in my eyes. All thanks to B

Kotlin feels to me to be in an odd spot. Java really has the incredible last mover advantage and it keeps making the right decisions in my eyes. All thanks to Brian Gotez and the team, they have incredible write ups about the language every month it feels like. Java is very lucky to have Scala and Kotlin to learn form. I don't really see them ever taking a majority share of Java away, one of my issues when having a dive into Kotlin is the fact you need to context switch between Java and Kotlin libs all the time and at that point I'd rather just stay on Java since its progressing so much at the moment. Have a peek into Project Valhalla. I wonder how Kotlin is going to be split when Project Loom comes along with their coroutines implementation and colored function issue sounds like another fractured library split waiting to happen in an already niche backend language. Though its not as if Java is amazing itself, it is a bleed on the eyes, private and public keywords everywhere, no map collection literals is brutal, the cruft of libs, is Spring really the best dev experience you got Java? Lack of upgrading culture sucks, the getter/setter bullshit, and writing it is not 100% joyful like a scripting language would be. Java is very much so an enterprise 'late game' language but is slowly improving its ergonomics through project Amber. I know people continually say the Java has amazing libs but I'm not having the same experience while trying to make my rails like setup. Where is the Sidekiq equivalent for background job processing? It's not Quartz (thats a dead lib), where is easier storage integrations like ActiveStorage? Where is something like Devise? Java for typical startup web development feels like hard mode and I assume its because Java is largely a 9 to 5 programmers language. Having said that Kotlin will be the Android goto for the future no doubts there.