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But Sun did invest in the creation and development of Java for the financial benefit of Sun. Jetbrains invested in Kotlin for the financial benefit of Jetbrains.

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JetBrains wants to be like Borland, and like Borland is now getting beyond themselves and better not trip over.

Regardless, Jetbrains is in the business of selling dev tools. Any past present and future investment in Kotlin must be seen in this context.

They better take care not to fly too high with their Kotlin Platform.

what would flying too high mean in concrete terms? lock themselves into a tiny ecosystem?

> JetBrains wants to be like Borland, and like Borland is now getting beyond themselves and better not trip over.

I don't understand what Borland's history has to do with JetBrains' decision to invest their resources on adding support for a programming language to a third-party text editor.

Sounds like a non-sequitur of an unwarranted cheap shot that adds nothing to the discussion besides noise.

Touch grass. JetBrains is trying to be like Borland in the sense that JetBrains is doing with Kotlin what Borland did with Delphi. Create their own all-in-one-place programming ecosystem. You can see it slowly coalescing.

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