| ▲ | hylaride a day ago | |
That's kind of what I'm asking. I did have a former co-worker write a micro service in Kotlin around 2018. He said that as nice as the language is, the ecosystem was (at the time, not sure how it is today) so utterly dominated by Android development, that he said he wouldn't recommend using it again - half the time he was calling out Java anyways. | ||
| ▲ | gavinray a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
Kotlins "ecosystem" is all of Java, and then all of Kotlin. Put another way: Java only has access to a subset of the ecosystem Almost all of the backend libraries I use are Java libs. Some of them have additional Kotlin extension libs that add syntax sugar for more idiomatic code. | ||
| ▲ | esafak a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I use kotlin and I do not feel oppressed by Android in any way. And I'd rather call Java libraries from Kotlin than Java. Many have Kotlin wrappers. | ||
| ▲ | dtech a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
That's a weird take. Even if true, kotlin has perfect interop with calling Java libs so there's not really a downside to keep using Java libs. There's not that much demand for kotlin-specific libs outside multiplatform which includes Android. For what it's worth, Spring has first tier Kotlin support, I haven't noticed this bias. | ||