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		halpert on Dec 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: State of Valhalla Ok that’s Scala… Kotlin is already the primary language for all new Android applications. The interop story with Java is unambiguous: Kotlin works well with Java. For instance, Android didn’t rewrite most of their SDK in Kotlin, yet it works just fine. Popular Java libraries like Spring and Dagger work with Kotlin. It really “just works”.

kaba0 on Dec 25, 2021 [–]

Until the language tears over whether they should support android’s “java 8”, openjdk’s java 17+ with modern features, js, or multiplatform.

halpert on Dec 25, 2021 | [–]

That’s just random speculation.

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