AAAAAgh! When will people see the light? I'm talking about Jython, of course. I just took a first look at a Kotlin tutorial: boo! Curly braces. Jython is THE BEST LANGUAGE EVER. Personally I think a bit of blame must attach to the developers for the fact that Google adopted another JVM language for Android that wasn't Jython. Don't get me wrong, the Jython developers are genii, but sometimes seem a little unworldly, perhaps. Jython should have been adopted for Gradle (rather than Groovy) and then for Android development. All sorts of red herrings get in the way of people's appreciation of THE BEST LANGUAGE EVER: for example, people complain about slow start-up times... but in fact this is because so many Java classes are loaded into memory ... and it wouldn't take much to keep them in memory between runs. Messing around with Java classes in ways you're not intended to (it feels a prim Victorian lady dressing in a bikini at times), with the brilliance of Python behind it all, is just the best thing you can do with your clothes on at a computer terminal. Oh, and throw in multi-threading, etc. And integrate pure Java whenever you like... Is it too much to expect the world to one day wake up to its folly???? I fear so. Kotlin... bah!