Kotlin? Why not golang, I wonder?

itp · on May 17, 2017

Long story short, Kotlin is easy to support without substantive (any?) changes to Android runtime, golang would involve much more effort.

It's also not clear to me there's any desire to write applications in golang.

blhack · on May 17, 2017

Native android application development is totally not my community. I admit I have never even heard or kotlin.

Actually, at the coworking space I'm currently streaming the conference at, nobody had heard of kotlin.

edit: AH, Kotlin runs on the java virtual machine. That makes much more sense to me now.

itp · on May 17, 2017

Sorry, that's the context I should have provided! (Knowing that also probably explains why they cut to a shot of the JetBrains CEO in the audience, since Kotlin originated there.)

taormina · on May 17, 2017

Well, it already works on the JVM and on Android, many production apps in the wild are already using it, and they avoided the problems that existing JVM languages like Scala and Clojure had in terms of running on Android.

yazr · on May 18, 2017

Can you explain about some of these problems ? Why are some JVM languages easier than others ?