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I'd argue that just because a language runs on a platform with a potentially large number of third-party support (JVM) doesn't mean it's going to be nice to use.

For example, I ended up having to write Java code when dealing with large XML data sets in a Clojure system, because the current offerings simply didn't let me do what I needed in fluent Clojure code. I suspect Kotlin has those same kinds of issues, just amplified because it's a lot less widespread than Clojure.



Kotlin is basically a nicer Java and will seemlessly integrate. You can even mix Java and Kotlin in the same project.


The fact that it integrates with Java isn't what I'm getting at. Developing in Clojure eventually forced me to write some Java, which I didn't want to do. I just don't see Kotlin as somehow solving that problem.




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