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by pjmlp 2256 days ago
That is how Google plays the game to sell Kotlin, by placing it against a half baked implementation of Java 8.

If Android had an up to date full implementation of Java, the sales pitch wouldn't work that well.

In fact, there are several people that mistakenly think Android Java is Java and then get positively surprised when they learn about the real deal.