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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Edited

I understand now why you reacted this way, you took my "rules of thumb" as an hint that I wanted to bash Java.

But really my intention was something else than bashing anything.

I do think that Kotlin is great for me (but happy that you have found something better for your needs). But the reason Kotlin is great is that it is standing on the shoulders of Giants

Back to my article: I am a Kotlin backend developer and I receive almost every day a job offer to do Android... which I really do NOT want to do.

So I wanted to explain once for all that there is more to Kotlin than just Android.

The rule of thumb is to give recruiters a better idea of where Kotlin makes sense : mostly in the same areas where Java makes sense.