is there someone who switched from Python to Kotlin (or started using Kotlin alongside Python)? I ha...

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[Piotr Krzemiński]

is there someone who switched from Python to Kotlin (or started using Kotlin alongside Python)? I have several questions

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

I've used both, not in the same project obv, but I've relayed ideas between the 2 languages. Ask ahead!

[Piotr Krzemiński]

I'm curious specifically about a case when someone is proficient in Python, and then learns about and onboards Kotlin. In particular:
• what's the biggest positive and negative surprises once you first used Kotlin?
• how easily you felt you can translate the constructs/idioms to Kotlin, and how much time it took you to be proficient? also, wondering if switching the mindset from imperative to functional/immutable was a problem, or you tried hard to use the imperative style in Kotlin as well to mimic Python
• what was the motivation to use Kotlin over Python?

[Piotr Krzemiński]

I'm just considering showing Kotlin to my Python colleagues, and I'm wondering how to approach it in an enjoyable way

[Piotr Krzemiński]

I'm planning to do side-by-side comparison of most frequent constructs, just to showcase the syntax and idioms, but of course there's much more

[Klitos Kyriacou]

I wouldn't think the Python developers would be moving from a procedural to a functional mindset. Python has a lot of heavily used functional idioms, such as list & set comprehensions, and non-mutating functions such as sorted(list).

[Shawn]

python has those idioms, but there's nothing making you use them

[Shawn]

I have seen plenty of procedural, nearly C-style python in my time