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> I'd say Kotlin was Java 2.0 ten to five years ago, but now it's a language that's going in a different direction from Java's.

Maybe it is, maybe it is not... We all do not know the future.

> Java will never adopt many if not most of the features Kotlin has, because most features never prove themselves as particularly beneficial over time

So what. I care (as said before) for the implicit nulls problem. Also, I dont like to my code to be littered with annotations (to introduce magic) and exceptions-as-alternative-return-values.