While not exactly an answer to your question, you may find the discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

While not exactly an answer to your question, you may find the discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147996 helpful; it's not super Kotlin-focused but for sure dives into the pro and con camps around Spring My take on Kotlin is that to really appreciate it, one would have to have been soaking in the JavaSE/JavaEE ecosystem 6 through 11 in order to appreciate why JetBrains did such a good job with Kotlin as an alternative to "modern day COBOL" that is JavaSE (I don't mean that derogatorily just "common business language" and stable and predictable)