[Roybatty]

Even though Kotlin is still essentially vaporware for those outside Jetbrains, we know that it'll have at least decent (if not great) IDE support right off the bat when the alpha/beta is released.

I think that Kotlin could be the Java successor that Scala never will be.

[theshadow]

Please please please baby jesus let me have a dollar every time someone says 'Language X, not language Y is the java successor'

[Roybatty]

The difference is that we won't have an Emacs/Vim plugin for years and years after it's initial release. Plus, it's not a dynamically typed language and not Scala

[eropple]

IIRC, JetBrains will also be providing an Eclipse plugin (though turning it over to the community after initial dev).