Hey everyone! I’m Egor, product manager in the Kotlin team. I’m conducting a series of interviews with newcomers in Kotlin for Server-side. I’m interested to talk both to people who had experience with server-side with other languages and to those who came from Android or somewhere else. My goals are to: - Understand how and why people decide to try Kotlin - Understand how exactly they try Kotlin for the first time - Collect pain points in their onboarding process If you’re interested to help our team make the onboarding process better – feel free to write me in direct messages :)

Coming from other languages includes Java? 😄

@jaguililla yes 🙂

I Come from from non JVM languages. My preferred languages are JS, Crystal, Nim, lua etc

I came from Android, found ktor is super easy to use, especially https://start.ktor.io/# is an awesome starting point

I come from a SOAP background in C#, I really loved how Kotlin worked, seen it the first time on an interview for my current job and currently am using it in the team project.

I come from Javascript and more recently Typescript background. I used Java 1.5 as a professional years ago for a while and disliked the verbosity. Now I am moving more towards server development and would like to use a JVM language. I am evaluating Kotlin as well as the community. Not just looking at the tech but also if the community is helpful and welcoming.

Especially in smaller teams it is common to have full stack developers. Having to know the ecosystems of two worlds is hard. NodeJs brought the promise of writing the same backend and frontend language. But JavaScript is just a mess. Kotlin brings the same promise with a much more enjoyable language. What I would like to see is a good and Kotlin first frontend framework. Kotlin react feels somehow not native to Kotlin.