alt Hacker NewsKotlin feels like it's having an identity crisis. The gap between the two languages continues to decrease. Kotlin is trying to be server-side, Android, but also every other platform (KMP). Feels like everything is brand new and also deprecated at the same time, always moving on to something new.
Maybe Roman really was the soul and it lost its touch without him?
I guess in the age of AI it doesn't matter since a few years from now, if you change your mind, you can just ask Jeeves to one-shot rewrite it back to Java.
Until Java fixes its type system to add nullable types (and not in that ridiculous tri-state nullability method that one JEP proposes), Kotlin will be several steps ahead of Java.
I can speak from experience that Fable 5.1 still writes code that compiles and usually runs fine but throws null pointer exceptions in reasonable edge cases.