yes, even years ago before 1.0, Kotlin blended in with existing Java code pretty well, it's not that big a learning curve and adds a really nice std lib on top

yes, even years ago before 1.0, Kotlin blended in with existing Java code pretty well, it's not that big a learning curve and adds a really nice std lib on top of Java. So I don't really relate to the framing that it competes with modern Java.