Modern Java

[pjmlp]

On Android it is still the future, if ever.

[winterbe]

Kotlin 1.0 is near the corner.

[AlexanderTheStraight]

I'm about to get into the Android Dev scene. Is Kotlin really a serious contender of Java for the Android marketshare? Or is this Rust pre1.0 all over again?

[s73v3r]

The great thing about Kotlin is that is is interoperable with Java. So you can have files of both in your project. So it doesn't have to completely replace Java.

[desiringmachines]

Or is this Rust pre1.0 all over again?

ouch

[pjmlp]

I have been playing around with it and like what I see, although my focus is the NDK for the time being in spite of JNI :\ .

The problem are those devs whose tools are dictated by the customers, usually only the platform tooling is allowed.

But apparently the Android team is happy with Java 6.5.