[hugi]

Kotlin's dependency and relationship with IntelliJ is one of the largest reasons why I don't use it. I really dislike IntelliJ and Kotlin is mostly unusable without it.

I don't see why I should force my company into vendor lock-in (IntelliJ/Kotlin) on what is otherwise an open platform (Java/OpenJDK).

[erokar]

This is unfortunate indeed. I'm hoping the Kotlin language server for VS Code will get some love, it doesn't seem to be working at this point.

[anotherevan]

Yes, this was the main reason I chose Java instead of Kotlin when starting our last big project. Would have loved to use Kotlin, but the vendor lock-in was the deal breaker.