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Is Kotlin better than Java?

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Re: Is Kotlin better than Java?

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Since the article is talking about Android app development the answer is "yes" because that's what Google recommends for Android app development: it's the language in which you're going to find sample code on Google's Android websites so yes, it's better in that respect. However, it's just one of several JVM languages so it's abilities in general are equivalent to Java or Scala or anything else that ultimately runs on the JVM.

Re: Is Kotlin better than Java?

#3
Groovy and Scala are also as good as Java. You need infinite expressivity, you have Java, you want to play dirty tricks you have Groovy, you need things not in Java, you have Kotlin, you need to construct these things in an old OOP way? You have classic Java.