Their implementation of closures is ass-backwards. Just a bare pair of braces with no arrow to disambiguate from block parens. Kotlin also added to Java's verbo

Their implementation of closures is ass-backwards. Just a bare pair of braces with no arrow to disambiguate from block parens. Kotlin also added to Java's verbosity with extra modifiers like 'internal', 'open' and 'by lazy' which isn't even grammatical English. And don't get me started on multiple constructors.