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Kotlin became the language of Android, not because it was new, but because multiple company's studied it and devs were more productive in the language after a r

Kotlin became the language of Android, not because it was new, but because multiple company's studied it and devs were more productive in the language after a relatively short on ramping period, many cases a weekend to get familiar and less than a month to be more productive. Java was stagnating on Android as well and Kotlin was able to introduce a lot of modern features far more quickly. The only argument to keep with Java is that Java actually seems to be chasing after some of the gains Kotlin made.

ktosobcy 2y ago
> Kotlin became the language of Android, not because it was new, but because multiple company's studied it and devs were more productive in the language after a relatively short on ramping period, many cases a weekend to get familiar and less than a month to be more productive. [citation_needed] > Java was stagnating on Android as well and Kotlin was able to introduce a lot of modern features Java was stagnating on Android because Google was (and is) lagging with implementing newer features. Android 12 only got support for Java 11 ffs... Interestingly enough with Project Mainline it will be possible to support newer Java versions in Android…