I spend lots of time saying good things about Kotlin, but here I talk about the darkest issues with using Kotlin on the backend, namely that LinkedIn automatically assumes that you are an absolute Android enthusiast vade retro satanas 😈 ah ah ah And a second unexpected question: is “Kotlin” a terrible name? https://dev.to/jmfayard/is-there-an-equivalent-of-spring-boot-for-kotlin-hfg

Thanks for the mention and the kind words ^^

I don't think the name is an issue. Groovy and Scala aren't confused for anything other than JVM languages

Context: this is more a light watercooler discussion than a serious dogmatic article. “JVM language” is not something that everyone immediatly fully understands. Python runs on the JVM and I don’t care thing is the name matters more for Kotlin than Groovy or Scala because of the massive Android story. The question is how you present Kotlin to people outside of your extended bubble. For now the answer is “Kotlin is the Swift of Android” 😛

Interesting article! I’ve certainly experienced Kotlin=Android a lot in the past, professionally. Now days recruiters seem more up to speed. On the name, having a name like Java++ would have helped initially, I think it would have led to massive amounts of confusion given that Kotlin can now do JS and Native and Wasm! Compared to “Kotlin/JS”, “Java++/JS” doesn’t quite seem right…

“Kotlin: Not Only Android” could work as a new catch phrase going forward 🙂

Or passively increase our android world community 🤡

LinkedIn is bad, skipping it is best