I don't really understand your comment. - What do they win by pushing Kotlin against Java (for reasons that are not also beneficial to developers)? The word "a

I don't really understand your comment. - What do they win by pushing Kotlin against Java (for reasons that are not also beneficial to developers)? The word "agenda" makes it seem like they have evil intents - Doesn't Kotlin depend on the JVM, and so wouldn't it benefit from an upgrade - Isn't Kotlin a programming language that uses the JVM and the Java standard library anyway? (I saw a bit of Kotlin, I contributed a small patch to QKSMS, it seems it is a bit like Groovy in that it is an alternative syntax but is essentially Java with some syntax sugar and some additional classes to make some tasks easier) I understand that Kotlin may not directly benefit from the new Java language features, but it seems like it would benefit from all the other advances. (I'm not defending Google, I don't like them)