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doublepg23yesterday at 2:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why not Kotlin?


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dorkypunkyesterday at 3:10 PM

Most organizations that use Java tend to be pretty conservative with their technology picks and nowadays with newer Java versions the only real gap with Kotlin is null-safety which is supposed to also come to Java at some point. There is also an organization culture component most of the time, one our engineers actually proposed to use Kotlin for one of the new projects but it got rejected because "We are a Java shop"

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mikert89yesterday at 3:33 PM

I think Java took all the best features of kotlin

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