Through my reading.. it appears that kotlin target...

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[michael.hibay]

Through my reading.. it appears that kotlin targets java 6 runtime, specifically lacking support for Java 8 streams / lamda functions which are huge performance wins if you use functional programming paradigms. Java 6 would require these functional paradigms to be implemented with anonymous inner classes, which would be a performance hit on execution, even if its a win on readability.