I got to see some of these in person, though at different conferences. If you're at all interested in Java, the talks by Venkat Subramaniam and Nicolai Parlog are worth a watch.
Is that even a thing in 2025? I thought the consensus was that Kotlin has a strictly better syntax than Java.
(I'm not even a Kotlin fan. I was pretty sad when Kotlin started taking Scala's market share...)
1. There is no such thing as "strictly better syntax", that's impossible to objectivize.
2. Kotlin, while growing in popularity, doesn't even hit the 1% mark on the TIOBE index. It is currently less popular than Prolog. Java sits at 10%.
3. Don't yuck someone else's yum. It isn't constructive. It doesn't promote good discussion. And this just reeks of uninformed, subjective "java bad"-bandwagoning.