did he really call kotli na cute baby that has to grow up ?

Well, Java is good and going in the right direction. The problem is you need to live really long to see the right things happen.

Keep in mind that Venkat is a big fan of Kotlin 🙂

why this is funny

i wonder how they would implement null-safety without breaking the language

i wonder how they would implement null-safety without breaking the language

The same way the Kotlin did 😉

Java would have to do it the other way around, String would have to be nullable and @String or String? would have to be non-nullable

Well, in Java you’d need to go the other way around since current type system assumes that everything is nullable

they could probably just continue to treat String like String! and then introduce ? for nullable and some other symbol for non-nullable. Would be weird working on a mixed Kotlin-Java project where the meaning of String? is swopped between Java and Kotlin

No offense but I think this is pure marketing stunt pulled off by Oracle. Oracle knows that it has been lagging on Java and with new JDK release cycle/policy the F**KED UP! Google is now pushing behind Kotlin and I don't see a reason why Kotlin won't give a strong competition to Java proving "baby" that has evolved already.

If you want to avoid completely null, you can use Optional.

yeah, especially not after that Oracle lawsuit against Google