[Bienlein]

I started looking into Kotlin already when it was M2. Always liked it a lot, because every feature has a reason to exist. Nothing is added without careful thought whether it is needed at all or could be solved in the library anyway. Scala would have been a much more consistent language if the Scala people had progressed in this way as well and Scala code would also be much easier to read.

Kotlin seems to have a killer feature which is Android development, which is of course good. But what about internal enterprise development? It makes me think whether Kotlin has enough added value to make people change from a safe haven like Java8 to Kotlin. Sure, much better build times and less problems with code readability when using Akka, Play, Spark with Kotlin instead of Scala. Also Kotlin offers much more power in exploiting the features of those tools compared to Java. But how many people use Akka or Spark? Nevertheless, I wish Kotlin all the best. I will always greatly prefer it over Java or Scala.