Oracle going full Kotlin O_o

Java will never be “full Kotlin” 🙂 But Java evolution is good. It will be easier for Java developers

when

they

switch

to Kotlin 😉

This shows me that the whole multiplatform and native stuff is very important for Kotlin’s future. Even if writing Java is as fun as writing Kotlin, there will still be a lot more use cases for Kotlin over Java.

Agree that multiplatform is important, I think it may become increasingly important with how Oracle has decided to handle the Java release cycle, which could potentially create a lot of problems.

What problems do you mean?

Would be pretty easy to break compatibility, combined with a 6 month major version number release cycle it seems very likely to be relatively chaotic compared to the previous 20 or so years.

Looks like proper null safety is missing from that list.

- default arguments - string interpolation - safe call and ?: - extension functions and more features are also missing in their plans 🙂

biggest advantage of Java, retrocompatibility. Biggest problem of Java, retrocompatibility

I call it project Kava

Extension methods since their just syntactic sugar should be easiest to implement without breaking changes

Too little too late Java. Kotlin ftw 😉