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Yeah, Spring has adopted Kotlin quite nicely, and there's also Ktor, which is a simpler framework built specifically with Kotlin in mind, coming from JetBrains. Great stuff! :+1:

Don't forget Vert.x as well (<http://vertx.io/docs/vertx-core/kotlin/>), which is one of the major Java server-side options. There was a Vert.x talk presented at KotlinConf: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__IUrGBWreM>. Vert.x has a channel in this Slack: <#C1NH36VV0|>

I wouldn't touch anything with the word "Eclipse" with a ten feet pole..

Spring has Reactor and Reactive Web API thus Vert.x is deprecated.

Just because a project has the word Eclipse in front it doesn't mean it is bad. Red Hat are the ones in behind Vert.x's development (at one point a JetBrains employee assisted with developing Kotlin support), and Vert.x is in no way related to the terrible Eclipse IDE.

It very much is related by falling under the Eclipse Foundation which time and time again proves how horribly mismanaged and ill-guided it is. I have zero hope for this project.

I wouldn't say spring Webflux deprecates vert.x... They're different tools and vert.x does some interesting things.

Vert.x has been around for over 5 years, and has been adopted by a lot of major companies (<http://vertx.io/whos_using/>).

Put it this way, if a sw project was badly managed would it be able to gain significant adoption?

Sure. Look at Eclipse IDE. It is widely used in our industry and it is objectivily a terrible piece of garbage that I would not wish on my worst enemy.