Next entity for the killed-by-google-graveyard?
Joke aside, seems that kotlin is a niche player and will remain a better Java until something like Rust eventually takes over the enterprise market.
Joke aside, seems that kotlin is a niche player and will remain a better Java until something like Rust eventually takes over the enterprise market.
I don’t see how Rust displaces Java or Kotlin. It’s very different with different use cases that it’s suited for and different strengths and weaknesses.
Kotlin also seamlessly inter operates with Java, which is a big deal for any company with a large existing Java code base, which are legion.
Kotlin/Native is never going to be a match for other native languages, as its reboot by choosing an incompatible memory model with JVM languages has proven.
While on the JVM, just like trying to replace C on UNIX, JavaScript on the browser, it is just another guest language dancing to Java tunes.
Just another one to share seats between Beanshell, jTCL, Jython, JRuby, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Ceylon, XTend, without big daddys' help to force adoption down developer throats like they are doing on Android.
They are just betting on a new horse after the old ones failed to win the races they were set off to.
I kept being downvoted when I talked about S4TF going nowhere and the news today prove many of us were right about it.
Similarly I will give about 5 years time for Kotlin fashion to die everywhere outside Android, this assuming that Fuchsia won't eventually become the new darling.
It is quite telling that Google's own business units like Ad Words and Google Pay rather go with Flutter, and write blog posts about it, instead of adopting KMM.
Jetpack Composer is a political answer to Flutter.