It's much more "multi-paradigm" or "unopinionated" than Java, but since it is a pretty thin layer over Java and uses its standard library, the ecosystem and idi

It's much more "multi-paradigm" or "unopinionated" than Java, but since it is a pretty thin layer over Java and uses its standard library, the ecosystem and idioms are still very much OOP by convention. But, I see the language itself as more akin to C++ in that it really doesn't strongly push much in one direction or another, but they also both lack built-in tools or optimizations for doing real functional programming. So, I'd say that Kotlin, like C++, is an unopinionated language that does well for OOP and/or imperative styles.