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Actually I spend most of my time on C++ side, which also has its own share of issues regarding Android tooling.

Still checking in how Kotlin support evolves, my experience using languages like Turbo Pascal, Delphi and Oberon made me weary of using using languages that aren't directly supported by platform owners for production code.

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Kotlin is amazing. It takes the best parts of Scala while keeping the simplicity of Java.

It may not be supported by Google but it was created by Jetbrains, the developer of Ideaide which is what Android Studio is based on, so it's support is top notch.

The best part of Kotlin is there is near zero cost to using it. You can learn it in a day and is fully interoperable with Java. :)

That's kind of nonsense. Kotlin adds some syntax sugar to Java, but it's not related to Scala in any reasonable way.

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