[driver733]

My goal is to compare Kotlin with the current version of Java along with any Java libs that are commonly used (such as Lombok). I have mentioned the fact that some teams are still on older versions of Java just to highlight that not every developer can access the features of the latest Java release.

[vips7L]

Unless it's Android, if they can't access the latest features of Java they more than likely can't access the latest features of Kotlin either.

[driver733]

That's not always the case, since Kotlin can generate Java 6 compatible bytecode.