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by motbus3 248 days ago
I'm curious about Kotlin. What makes it great for you?

I tried few times checking on it, but I failed to find something that motivated me to continue

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I haven't used it much. I know a few people who have.

But as I said above, I realized long ago that languages without IDEs by and large falter in the long term (that's why I'm currently concerned about Jetbrains needing a buggy plugin to do Elixir), so Jetbrains being behind it added a lot of gravitas.

And after fighting with Larry Ellison for a bit, Android phones moved to Kotlin to get around the lawyers.