[johnnycerberus]

Measuring against Kotlin or other languages in this category like Scala is not the right thing to do. Also Kotlin is known for its slow compiler though JetBrains promised that the situation will improve. I would use Scala or Kotlin for everything data but when it comes to low-level networking/infrastructure I wouldn't even touch anything else but Go. Go is in the perfect sweet spot for this task. The Goldilocks Zone of network programming.

[BoorishBears]

It's such a truly terrible comparison because they didn't compare Kotlin, they compared Android!

The insane amount of time of overhead an Android project has over a "plain Kotlin" from resource packing to dex stuff to desugaring to ProGuard, it made me question if they're speaking in good faith for the rest of the comment...

My ktor projects on the other hand compile incredibly quickly, and with hot reloading it's even more seamless to iterate