How has Kotlin's interoperability with Java influenced your decision to adopt Kotlin in Android development or other projects?
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I’ve used Kotlin for things I needed to be interoperable between Java and JavaScript before, and Kotlin was fun to play with on that.
Outside of that experiment I haven’t really played with Kotlin much.
My history is that in 2015 I was super frustrated with Android development
Android's billion-dollar mistake(s)
Jean-Michel Fayard 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇴 ・ Sep 25 '19
If you know Android, you know Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton is the Chuck Norris of Android development.
Jake wrote down was working at Square and already convinced its colleague to try Project Kotlin.
He likes to write so he wrote down in an internal document why?
In a crucial step he decided to release that internal document to the world
Using Project Kotlin for Android - Google Docs
Frustration + Jake Wharton = I was immediatly convinced.
I released Kotlin to production way before it reached 1.0