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by narrator 3325 days ago
I think the Oracle/Google lawsuit drove the decision to adopt Kotlin. Now Google is going to work with JetBrains to develop Kotlin and is going to fork the GPL JVM probably by not including things like the controversial project Jigsaw that IBM voted down. Meanwhile, Oracle is stuck with Java, just like they're stuck with OpenOffice, Hudson, etc.
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izacus 3325 days ago
Nah. What drove the decision is that huge swaths of Android development community already adopted Kotlin and it's trivial to implement it in existing Android codebases. It's also built by a company with which Google already has partnership with (IntelliJ built both Kotlin and IDEA IDE which is the base for Android Studio).
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vickychijwani 3324 days ago
Yes, this is the only reason IMO. GP is reading too much into this.

Source: I closely follow all developments in the Android ecosystem, and have been doing so for over 2 years.

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saturn_vk 3325 days ago
Jigsaw would actually help android. The entire reason Google went with their own implementation in the first place is to exclude certain APIs that were meaningless on android.
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