When I tried Kotlin some time ago on a side project I wasn't very impressed. To me the problems Kotlin is addressing are not that huge. It feels like having to

When I tried Kotlin some time ago on a side project I wasn't very impressed. To me the problems Kotlin is addressing are not that huge. It feels like having to switch to another language (albeit very similar to Java) just to fix some annoyances is just not worth it. Maybe prior to Java 8 this would've been more interesting. I also wonder how much time it will take Kotlin to start benefiting from Java 9 features when that gets released.