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Pretty much. Its been very enjoyable to code in so far (and works with practically the whole Java ecosystem of libraries and platforms.

IntelliJ (Jetbrains are the leaders behind Kotlin) has first class support for the language. Gradle will have support for Kotlin as it's DSL in it's next major iteration.

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Well, if you think the most important technical improvement to language design discovered since the creation of Java in 1995 is some shorter syntax, go ahead. I guess.

Despite some very loud people on the internet, it seems to have close to zero adoption, and JetBrains making big promises and then failing to deliver anything is not really helping them.

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