[cartoonfoxes]

The language is promising, but given the incredibly fucked-up state of the Android build tooling merely getting to the point where you can evaluate Kotlin is an exercise in extreme patience.

> The tooling is also world class, as you might expect from a language developed by JetBrains. I recommend using Kotlin with IntelliJ -- the intellisense is guaranteed to boost your productivity.

It's a sad state when IntelliJ can be considered "world class". Sadly, I've had nearly as many problems with it as I have with Eclipse. I've been thrashing about desperately trying to find any production-ready alternatives to straight Java for Android development. I will literally cry tears of joy when I do, but it's not going to be today.