Good day to all! :slightly_smiling_face: My name ...

# android

[Eugene]

Good day to all! 🙂

My name is Eugene and I'm a product manager at JetBrains.

Currently, I look for Java developers who continue to use Java in their production projects. I'd like to learn more about your UCs and why's do you use Java instead of Kotlin.
I think most of you have completely switched to Kotlin, but perhaps you know people out of this channel who continue to use Java 🤔

Just DM me and I'll ask a few questions 🤖

That's it. Have a nice day and happy coding 👩‍💻

[Afzal Najam]

We use Java for our internal Android library right now, only because we don't fully understand how a client app could have a conflict with another version of the Kotlin std library they're importing, and how to avoid that

[caelum19]

I've been trying to get non-android teams I've been in to use Kotlin instead of Java for a long time. I think the primary blocker from switching is that most decisions they make are conservative and switching to Kotlin is not seen as conservative. Java is an extremely conservative language, there's basically no risk in using it and the perception I think is the same. When engineers try to sell Kotlin, I think they usually try to sell the awesome features and time saving, but what they should be selling as well is the reduction of risk and that switching can be a gradual process

I haven't tried making this argument yet, and I intend to with some well made slides so that I can finally get away from using a really obsolete language and start using one that brings me joy 🙂