Can I get some reasons to use Java instead of Kotlin?

• kotlin

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  The Kotlin Programming Language.

  

Their first point that Kotlin is a lot more 'proprietary' is way over blown. It’s all open source and well documented. He points out the Metadata annotation, but jetbrains publishes a library you can use to parse the metadata https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/libraries/kotlinx-metadata/jvm and the annotation itself is documented https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/libraries/stdlib/jvm/runtime/kotlin/Metadata.kt

• Killed by Google

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Google investing a lot of money in a technology doesn't mean a lot, see https://killedbygoogle.com/

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• KEEP

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  Kotlin Evolution and Enhancement Process

  

the kotlin devs aren’t dumb, they know this is coming and they welcome it because it means kotlin can have better performance too. Here is the kotlin open source proposal for value classes from the kotlin language lead https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/blob/master/notes/value-classes.md It addresses the kotlin value types at https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/blob/master/notes/value-classes.md#project-valhalla There’s also a video they released about kotlin value classes recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpqvtgibbsQ notes/value-classes.md https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP|Kotlin/KEEPKotlin/KEEP | Added by GitHub (Legacy)

• kotlin

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What are you talking about? They publish their Grammer in ANTLR format: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin spec

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