Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by yole 3719 days ago
Yes, the plan is for Kotlin to replace Java at JetBrains. I don't see how the performance requirement follows from that. The performance of JetBrains products is determined far more by the implementation algorithms than by the compiler used to build their source code. Kotlin's performance is on par with Java, and that is all that JetBrains needs for its internal use.