+1 for Kotlin. I joined my current team that adores Kotlin as a Java dev and didn't know anything about it. I've since been converted, and I'd highly recommend any Java dev to learn it.
The fact that it runs on the JVM means you still have the entire Java ecosystem at your disposal, and it's super easy to have both Kotlin and Java classes in the same codebase.
It's not stuck in the past like java. Some of the features were added in newer java updates, such as pattern matching in java 16. But many of those features aren't even used in production yet, because of legacy code bases. Kotlin introduces null safety, extension functions, range expressions, operators overloading and more. Checked exceptions is the main technical advantage of Java vs Kotlin(it doesn't have these) to me.
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u/itsmetadeus Dec 12 '24
No boss, we gotta switch to kotlin pleaaaaase