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0 pointsizacus9y ago0 comments

Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java and others also aren't "official Google", "Apple", "Microsoft" languages and they still run the whole web. It really question the brokenness of a company processes that refuses to use good tooling just because a corpo didn't tell them to.

Kotlin is full interoperable with Java APIs and libraries and at this point there's really very few cases where it's not a significantly better choice for Android development.

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pjmlp9y ago

It is not the question of telling to, it is the question of accepting to sign the contract at all, or pay at the end.

nradov9y ago

That's true for now. But there's nothing stopping Google from making changes to Android which break Kotlin support in ways we could never predict. From that standpoint, Java seems much less risky if you're building a large app that you expect to have to maintain and support for years to come.

SureshG9y ago

> But there's nothing stopping Google from making changes to Android which break Kotlin support

It won't, that's what they addressed in this post by ditching jack and switching back to javac bytecode.

"Over time, we realized the cost of switching to Jack was too high for our community when we considered the annotation processors, bytecode analyzers and rewriters impacted."

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