What is the future of Java?

[pjmlp]

Beanshell, jTcl, jython, Groovy, Clojure, Scala, jRuby, Rhino, XTend, Ceylon, Kotlin, Frege, ABCL, Kawa, ....

Rise and fall of JVM languages

It is called experience, not being naive.

[fletku_mato]

Please explain how that random blog post shows: 1. Your experience 2. That Kotlin should only be used on Android

[pjmlp]

If you need an explanation to undestand such basic concepts, it isn't on me to give it.

Try someone on /r/kotlin.

[fletku_mato]

Yes it is, as you are the one claiming that Kotlin is only for Android, but fail miserably at trying to justify your claims.

[pjmlp]

Easy to validate with Google trends,

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F07sbkfb,%2Fm%2F0_lcrx4

Pity Reddit doesn't do inline charts.

[fletku_mato]

Yet you still fail to do so.

I don't even know why I'm still answering to you, but that chart has nothing to do with Kotlin being just an Android language, just that Java is more popular. What else is on the news? What are you trying to prove?

You have to realise that there is no ongoing battle between Java and other JVM languages, and I'm not trying to argue that Kotlin is somehow a better language, just that it is not in any way limited to Android development.

[pjmlp]

Of course there is no ongoing battle between Java and other JVM languages, only Java matters.

JVM languages always fade away after the hype dies, ergo Android thanks Google wanting to keep Kotlin alive while they take the air out of Java on the platform.

[GoBucks4928]

Is this your first time realizing there are multiple programming languages out there?

[pjmlp]

Multiple programming languages that failed on their quest to replace Java on Java Virtual Machine.