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by kotcity 3014 days ago
With the Java interop such a high priority for the Kotlin team over at JetBrains, Kotlin is sneaking its way into all kinds of Java environments -- from LOB apps to APIs, Java Web Services, etc.

Java might be a little annoying to wield, but the JVM is actually quite nice.

Whomever at JetBrains put a premium on Java interop should get a medal, because it's a VERY low friction move to go from Java development to Kotlin. You can port your project one file at a time and the tooling is excellent.
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pjmlp 3013 days ago
That is a nice goal, but it remains to be seen.

I have dabbled with all major JVM languages, yet if it wasn't for Spark and now Android, no customer would allow us to use anything besides Java itself.

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