Kotlin

“I can not find a reason to go back after Scala (which seemed to fail due to being indiscriminate) and especially Kotlin”

“Kotlin is actually a pretty nice language, especially compared to Java. I love how they have null checking as a central feature.”

“Kotlin solves more issues with the type system (smart casts, reified types, immutability by default)”

“Kotlin, in all honesty, is the first reasonable and very useful thing to come to the JRE ecosystem”

“Modern languages like Kotlin or Swift are pretty compact and don't really add a lot of bloat”

“requires paying tribute to its owners, only made relevant thanks to shipping in phones powered by a green droid”

“However Kotlin has Google's as godfather, want to develop for Android with the official tools? Kotlin it is.”

“Modern languages like TypeScript / Rust / Swift / Kotlin that have sum types are dramatically much nicer.”

“Typescript, Kotlin, Python and Ruby (via Sorbet or DryStruct) are all really easy to write all those data structures and code.”

“Kotlins nice, mutability in the collections and nullable types are nice but they still lack some form of checked error handling”

“Kotlin is a terrible language for learning, as it has a lot syntactic shortcuts that are easy to mistake for magic”

“Java’s Optional sucks compared to how C# (and Kotlin) implement support for nullable types.”

“Kotlin's combination of receiver lambdas plus syntactic sugar for calling higher-order functions make it an even better language to write DSLs in”

“It's a less clunky Java. The syntax is IMHO Ruby-level charming (for an OO-first lang), but with types that are quite a bit stronger than Java.”

“JetBrains has done a pretty good job of creating something that can fill many different niches”

“Maybe because my experience with Kotlin is restricted to Android, i didnt love that that much.”

“Kotlin is basically a Ruby (OO first with lots of FP goodness) with a serious type system.”

“Strongly typed, more concise than Java or Go (and probably Typescript), less likely to blow up at runtime than Typescript, epic tooling”

“Only other language that I think gets close to rust ergonomics is Kotlin, but it suffers from having too many possibilities for abstractions.”

“I absolutely loved it. With power of Kotlin I could produce maintainable code without one million null pointer validation”

“It pretends to fix things that haven't been problems in Java for more than 10 years while introducing a layer of syntactic complexity that's completely unwarranted.”

“you can compile Kotlin code for use in jvm, ios/ipados/macos, android, wasm/js, and native”

“Kotlin had other obvious advantages on Android like its thin standard library or the inlining of higher-order functions.”

“I favor a more functional style of programming and C# ends up making everything 5 times more verbose than Kotlin.”

“There was a small hype around Kotlin during 2016, because: cool lambdas! type inference! extension functions!”

“Kotlin/JS is dead in the water, there's literally no reason to use it”

“The two-way interop is one of Kotlin's advantages as it makes porting code from Java to Kotlin easier”

“Kotlin, well those behave as if ever the JVM would be one day rewriten in Kotlin, they have Android for that.”

“why is Kotlin implementing this in a non-JVM compatible way, instead of introducing checked exceptions with better language support?”

“It has pioneered several important features, but now the big brother has implemented them slightly differently”

“Kotlin has explicit interoperability with Java exactly to make it easy for Java devs to "upgrade"”

“Kotlin is a nice language, though not nice enough to where I'd want to use it outside of Android.”

“decreases verbosity so much that the interesting business logic is actually much easier to follow”

“as nice as the language is, the ecosystem was ... so utterly dominated by Android development, that he said he wouldn't recommend using it again”

“Kotlin has a better future than Scala, beyond the JVM, because papa Google has ensured it happens”

“Some of them even don't have any ideas how out of date their Kotlin "improvements" over Java are out of date.”

“It does a pretty good job of providing similar benefits as many Scala ecosystems, but providing approachability over purity.”

“Kotlin is not simple at all, it has a lot of keywords for strange and very specific features and corner cases”

“Rust and Kotlin are probably a little bit more "CSP-centric", since their channel interface is far less error-prone.”

“Where working in Swift and Kotlin feel like trying to navigate the many nuances of American football or cricket”