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by pjmlp 2051 days ago
Not at all, JetBrains are the first ones to admit it, also why they decided to stop contributing to Eclipse and merging the Kotlin plugin into the InteliJ source tree.

> Kotlin support for VSCode or other IDEs is not on the roadmap for the Kotlin team. Community initiatives in this respect are welcome.

-- https://kotlinlang.org/roadmap.html

> The next thing is also fairly straightforward: we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA. We’re working on a new language, but we do not plan to replace the entire ecosystem of libraries that have been built for the JVM. So you’re likely to keep using Spring and Hibernate, or other similar frameworks, in your projects built with Kotlin. And while the development tools for Kotlin itself are going to be free and open-source, the support for the enterprise development frameworks and tools will remain part of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, the commercial version of the IDE. And of course the framework support will be fully integrated with Kotlin.

-- https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-need...
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cies 2051 days ago
Thanks for your reply. You have a point, but there is to me still a difference between a "scratch-itch language created and a good biz model on top", and a "biz model that required a new language".

There is some legal stuff going on as well: Java was being monetized by Oracle and Google needed a way out. This helps Kotlin a lot imho. When then free-Java case totally lost, Google allows all to move to Kotlin and IntelliJ has the code translator tool (and will prolly get bought by Google at some point).

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pjmlp 2051 days ago
Google screwed Sun and had their opportunity to buy it.

The Java ecosystem has dozens of JVM implementations. None of them have ever had a problem with either Sun or Oracle.

Only Microsoft with their J++, and Google with their actions fragmenting the ecosystem for Java developers.

Microsoft learned their lesson and are now a OpenJDK contributor.

Time will come for Google as well.

Switching to Kotlin doesn't remove the dependency on the Java world, unless they plan to rewrite everything in Kotlin/Native.

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