What are the benefits of Kotlin over Java? Something I wish they went into!
Mostly, I find it far less verbose with a couple huge convenience features that I'm constantly using and would feel very lost without; and, they all come as part of the language, rather than bytecode hacks / pre-processors, like lombak
In my experience I don't hesitate to recommend Lombok. It will generate getters/setter/builders/toString in a transparent way, without visible changes in the code. This keeps Java classes much more concise to read.
It also provides withers on records, while waiting for native support (it's coming)
I know they added the Result type later on, but there's zero convenience to it, so you have to manually handle every error, even if you just want to bubble it.
Checked Exceptions were better, though Rust still has the best error handling in any non-functional language.
Do note that Java has quite a few features now that it didn’t at the time of writing.
This must be a bad attempt at a joke, right? Darcula is a nice theme (I personally prefer high contrast), but surely IntelliJ’s code inspection and automatic refactoring have always been its claim to fame.
Java is to too verbose. Kotlin have features like null safety, better functional programming, better coroutines, advanced sealed classe. Java virtual threads is still not ready and development was very slow. Blame oracle for being too complacent.
still seems too verbose though even though it is my preferred language