Also, Kotlin/Native is in beta now and could target Fuchsia (compiling AOT to native code using LLVM).
Still not able to use several of Android Studio features available to Java, like incremental compilation and slim APKs?
Kotlin advocates seem to forget JVM will never be rewritten in Kotlin, the language is just yet another guest, with the usual syndrome to wrap existing libraries, having to take care about FFI for Java access, not having all features taking advatange of the latest bytecodes, e.g. lambdas implementation.
As for Kotlin/Native, there is nothing to worry about versus what Go, Rust, C++, Dart, D, Nim offer in terms of performance, libraries and in some cases tooling.
Having to buy CLion for a graphical debugger isn't a selling point versus the established alternatives.
Fuchsia is being written in Go, Rust, C++ and Dart, with the team now hiring for node.js support.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/03/19/google-working-to-b...
Seeing that both Eclipse and Netbeans are now more or less dead (and speaking as a long time Eclipse user, from the very first version to around 4), yes, first class vendor-direct InteliJ support is more than enough. And more than most languages (including Groovy) ever had.
>As for Kotlin/Native, there is nothing to worry about versus what Go, Rust, C++, Dart, D, Nim offer in terms of performance, libraries and in some cases tooling.
IMHO, Rust will always be kind of niche as hard to tackle, Dart we'll see, D never went anywhere, and Nim will remain niche, it's a little too idiosyncratic to catch on.
Kotlin is already more popular than all of the above except perhaps Go.
>Fuchsia is being written in Go, Rust, C++ and Dart, with the team now hiring for node.js support.
Fuchsia is still vaporware or at least irrelevant. It's not even in the market yet. And the fact that it's written in 4 (and looking for 5th) languages doesn't really bring much confidence.
We move in different worlds, no InteliJ installations around here.
I remember when Groovy was popular, with every JUG in Germany having weekly talks and Sun talking how the next JEE revision would support Groovy for writing beans.
Popularity doesn't write software.
That won't get kotlin more traction. No proper/official tools for LSP support means no vscode, vim, emacs etc. users. As a happy eclipse user, I wouldn't call it dead either.
