would Kotlin help me besides optionals and monkey patching utils

billy: Well it will definitely be a lot easier than trying to port it using plain Java. And tbh there are not a lot of other options.

i like kotlin

We all do, that's why where here 😄 Groovy is a dynamically typed language, so yeah that's not going to scale well. I think you will be pretty happy with kotlin 😉

also the client uses reactive heavily

RxJava is great. It's as easy to use as possible from Java code, but RxKotlin gives you a lot of sugar over that so usage from Kotlin is even easier.

ya know its funny

Exactly the reason why JB decided to develop kotlin.

All I wanted to tell the swift guy at apple