Oracle going full Kotlin O_o <https://youtu.be/A-m...

# announcements

[Krs]

Oracle going full Kotlin O_o

https://youtu.be/A-mxj2vhVAA?t=756▾

[Pavlo Liapota]

Java will never be “full Kotlin” 🙂
But Java evolution is good. It will be easier for Java developers when they switch to Kotlin 😉

[maxmello]

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.

[dalexander]

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.

[Pavlo Liapota]

What problems do you mean?

[dalexander]

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.

[agrosner]

Looks like proper null safety is missing from that list.

[Pavlo Liapota]

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

[elect]

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

[oshai]

I call it project Kava

[agrosner]

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

[agrosner]

something like this:

String isNotNullOrEmpty(String this) {
 return this != null && !this.isEmpty();
}

using this as first parameter since its a reserved keyword

[agrosner]

then call sites would be "yes".isNotNullOrEmpty() and import would just point like a regular static method. problem solved

[xexiz]

Too little too late Java. Kotlin ftw 😉