[rattray]

what are the advantages of this over Kotlin?

[mynameisjohn]

can't tell if troll

[JJJollyjim]

To be fair, I can't really tell from the website what this is and why I would want it ("doesn't Android already have a JVM?"), and Kotlin could easily be defined as "a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on Android" as well!

[eropple]

In the first line of "About Avian" on the homepage:

> Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class lbrary [sic] designed to provide a useful subset of Java’s features