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by hn_throwaway_99 2374 days ago
> Go was written for servers, Kotlin for mobile apps.

Not really. Kotlin was just a better JVM language developed by the JetBrains folks before Google adopted it as a first class Android language, but I don't believe it was specifically developed for mobile initially.
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dehrmann 2374 days ago
The open question is if Java will start borrowing the best features from Kotlin and it will become less relevant (like Scala). To Kotlin's credit, it has better IDE support, it feels simpler than Java (whereas Scala feels more complex), and it cleans up a lot of fundamental language issues that Java can't get away from.
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