I'm puzzled why Kotlin isn't getting enough attention on HN, at least as much as Rust or Zig. Kotlin is indeed popular in it's specific domain (Android & Java). But the company is keen to position it as "write once run anywhere" space with a strong focus on multiplatform development. 1. The build system provides platform specific bindings for free (huge plus compared to the hassle of writing the core in C/C++ and the…
Its trying to be everything, but its good at nothing. Even with spring boot, it has a painful edges. Learning a language isn't a huge burden. Frameworks and libraries can alleviate huge burdens. Kotlin avoids the benefits of frameworks and libraries while giving meager benefits in term of language constructs.
I wanna understand better as I do kotlin in daily basis, some with spring, some with ktor and some with android and I don't get your points.