> Java fans say Java has evolved to match Kotlin and they're probably right. It definitely adopted a lot of the good things in Kotlin, but Kotlin doesn't have

> Java fans say Java has evolved to match Kotlin and they're probably right. It definitely adopted a lot of the good things in Kotlin, but Kotlin doesn't have the problem of needing to maintain backward compatibility. Kotlin doesn't even natively have null, which (in my opinion) is the best thing about the language.