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but you splitting your developer base. * There will be people better at kotlin * There will be people better at java. This is a problem when you are looking a
by bcit-cst 7y ago
but you splitting your developer base.
* There will be people better at kotlin
* There will be people better at java.
This is a problem when you are looking at hiring new people etc . This fragmentation is going cause issues just because people are hedging against Oracle future decisions.
In a perfect world Google should have bought Sun and the current version of Java would look at lot like Kotlin.
- gliop 7y agoKotlin is a light syntax for a coding style. It's as easy for a Java dev to learn Kotlin as it is to learn Spring or Hibernate or whatever library or framework the team at your new job uses
- sonnyblarney 7y agoIt's a whole other domain of things to learn, and now we're stuck with context switching all of the time. Even if Kotline were 'better' (And I don't think it is), it'd have to be quite a jump better. It's a little nicer for getting ideas down quickly, but beyond that to me it's just 'different' and now a whole other bag of things to support. If I have to chose between Kotlin+Java or just Java I'll take just Java. Going back to Java from Kotlin there's really nothing I miss.