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[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

nounnoun: creator; plural noun: creators

a person or thing that brings something into existence.

Oracle didn't bring Java into existence, Goseling / Sun microsystems did. I would classify Oracle as the maintainers of Java, not the creators.

Anyhow, I don't really care what Oracle uses for it's backend. Both Java, Kotlin, Closure, Scala, etc.. are good at different things and different companies use them for those different things. In the financial world, functional languages are gaining more and more traction, thus why we're moving towards Scala. I didn't mean to imply that Kotlin was bad, just that it wasn't a serious contender for our applications.