[ori_b]

Leaning heavily into object orientation, including baking in things like companion objects, object expressions, etc. Encouraging utility classes that tack half-baked functionality onto existing types. Smart casts encouraging overly complex hierarchy.

While operator overloading and infix functions aren't a Java anti-pattern, I also think the language would be improved by their removal.

[int_19h]

Even if you sincerely believe that OOP is an anti-pattern, surely it was firmly "baked into the language" in Java already? Kotlin is fundamentally a better Java, not a rebuttal to Java.