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> If it wasn't for Android, Kotlin is still a good back end language It certainly would. Like so many other JVM languages. Android is what makes kotlin stand o
by usrusr 5y ago
> If it wasn't for Android, Kotlin is still a good back end language
It certainly would. Like so many other JVM languages. Android is what makes kotlin stand out from that crowd.
Arguably "particularly well supported by IntelliJ" is another thing that makes kotlin stand out from the crowd, but that's a two-edged sword. I'd expect the average JVM person to see that as roughly a tie between a quality and a cost (more lock-in).
- nsonha 5y agoI don't see any alternative JVM language competing with Kotlin right now to even have options. Scala 3 is in a very different space. Before Kotlin 1, scala 3 was no where near release. I remember eclipse X10, which was like a "transpiler for java" but it wasn't as ambitious as Kotlin with multiplatform planned.