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Standard appeal to accomplishment, past success does not guarantee future success... especially on this joke comment

Kotlin is generally considered a bit of a dud in the modern programming language space.

It's a blessing when you're in the native Android / React Native / Flutter space.

True. Not having to write Java for native modules anymore makes me really happy. Shame they haven’t replaced gradle yet though

I reckon this comment from 6 years ago predicts Kotlin's fate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197817 I consider it prophetic.

My gut says Kotlin is great for individual developer experience. But I never heard or saw credible reports on the Total Cost of Ownership, e.g., Kotlin engineers hiring, swapping out on a team.

Even Noble Prize owners made huge mistakes after the prize.