Comment by Rajkumar on "Why I abandoned Java in favour of Kotlin"

Finally! Kudos for the effort and time to compile this HNO.

I'm currently looking into Kotlin and my plan to ditch Java is getting delayed. But with more and more I read about Kotlin, I grow more and more into it. As I mentioned before, it wouldn't be long before I left Java for Kotlin, and thanks for putting out all information which I needed.

The most interesting thing is, how quick I can write the same code in Kotlin with far more less code. And this is what I was looking for. Another good thing is, it is coming under JVM family IIRC!

Once again, thank you for writing this, so that people like me, who thought Java was the end of the world can get more idea about this Insane language!

You can mix Java and Kotlin classes, some of my packages have plenty of old .java files mixed with plenty of new .kt files. If I need to work on the Java classes, I simply click Convert to Kotlin in IntelliJ, clean it up a little bit and continue with Kotlin; the Java to Kotlin converter works pretty well.

I prefer to go full on. I used to work on Groovy+Spring, and man, that was a total mess. The code base was pretty good, but managing it was a big PITA. It's not my cup of coffee, and I prefer to go with either Kotlin or Java. Combining both, my OCD will kill me!

Kotlin + Spring is also doable, you just have to lateinit your @Autowired dependencies, or autowire them via the constructor, although I've abandoned Spring as well rather going for VertX as a replacement for SpringMVC and when I really need dependency injection, which is almost never, I use Guice. Kodein and Dagger seems like good options as well which I haven't had time to investigate yet.

That sounds great but I don't think I will move away from Spring anytime soon!

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