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As I see, the only purpose of Kotlin is a be test bed for novel features to JVM based languages. And eventually Java is going to integrate those features better than Kotlin. And Kotlin's advantages are gone like that. To be honest, I have never seen Kotlin used in environments other than Android. The day Google decides to move Android development to another language will be the day Kotlin dies. Or becomes a zombie.

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>And eventually Java is going to integrate those features better than Kotlin

Kotlin has better syntax and is less verbose. That matters for a lot of developers. Kotlin deals with null in a better way. Kotlin has better types.

> I have never seen Kotlin used in environments other than Android

I have seen several companies that use Kotlin as a backend language (often with Spring). I personally don't find the differences enough to bother switching from Java, but I also don't mind working with Kotlin in existing projects.

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