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by nradov 3388 days ago
That's true for now. But there's nothing stopping Google from making changes to Android which break Kotlin support in ways we could never predict. From that standpoint, Java seems much less risky if you're building a large app that you expect to have to maintain and support for years to come.
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> But there's nothing stopping Google from making changes to Android which break Kotlin support

It won't, that's what they addressed in this post by ditching jack and switching back to javac bytecode.

"Over time, we realized the cost of switching to Jack was too high for our community when we considered the annotation processors, bytecode analyzers and rewriters impacted."