One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Updating Kotlin is not the same as updating Java. In the second case you upgrade the virtual machine and hope for the best, which has been sometimes painful in the past, while when you update Kotlin you are still compiling bytecode for the same virtual machine, so you keep the same infrastructure.
And yes Java being a very mature technology has pros over Kotlin, for example the compiler is faster and static analysis tool are better. And hiring Java developers is easier, outside of the Android world, you may have to be OK with developers learning Kotlin on the job.
@jmfayard you upgrade the virtual machine and hope for the best
That sounds painful to even read. Please tell me someone you work with has read, understood, considered and then tested the upgrade path, before just "hoping" it will work...
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Updating Kotlin is not the same as updating Java. In the second case you upgrade the virtual machine and hope for the best, which has been sometimes painful in the past, while when you update Kotlin you are still compiling bytecode for the same virtual machine, so you keep the same infrastructure.
And yes Java being a very mature technology has pros over Kotlin, for example the compiler is faster and static analysis tool are better. And hiring Java developers is easier, outside of the Android world, you may have to be OK with developers learning Kotlin on the job.
Yes, I agree with those premises. although I wish it came more apparent in the discussions between Java or Kotlin
@jmfayard
you upgrade the virtual machine and hope for the bestThat sounds painful to even read. Please tell me someone you work with has read, understood, considered and then tested the upgrade path, before just "hoping" it will work...