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Kotlin is very pragmatic alternative to Java. A lot of people like it. It's endorsed by Google so it's pretty safe bet nowadays. Scala is another alternative w
by vbezhenar 4y ago
Kotlin is very pragmatic alternative to Java. A lot of people like it. It's endorsed by Google so it's pretty safe bet nowadays.
Scala is another alternative with more scientific approach.
Both enjoy JVM quality and consume Java libraries.
Java is improving as well, but not on par with those languages. Worth checking out though.
- biorach 4y agosee my reply to sibling comment
- jcadam 4y agoI really like Kotlin on the backend, it integrates nicely with Spring Boot, etc., but as soon as I say I have Kotlin experience, people say "Oh, so you're an android developer?" I've never touched android development in my entire life.
- pjmlp 4y agoBecause on the JVM, like in other platforms, guest languages come and go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages Kotlin has its future assured thanks to godfather Google, stagnating Android Java on purpose (only recently they decided to finally move to Java 11 LTS subset), while promoting Koltin as its replacement for everything besides core platform. So no wonder that people usually say that.