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You're basically trolling at this point. Java the language has major shortcomings, including an absolutely neutered and broken type system. Kotlin is an improvement, but still limited by its Java roots.

The JVM is a specific product. When people criticize Java, they are almost always only referring to the language called "Java".



Kotlin fanboys are the ones trolling, good luck on Android playground, that it everything that will be left of Kotlin in 10 years time.

JVM does not exist without the code written in Java that encompasses between 80% to 100%, depending on the implementation.

Maybe those worshiping Kotlin should take some lessons in JVM implementations, before bashing the infrastructure that made Kotlin possible.


You're building strawmen. Nobody is bashing the infrastructure. As in, nobody is bashing the JVM. They're (we're) bashing Java-the-language.

1. The first JVM was surely not written in Java. Therefore JVM != Java

2. A JVM can be written in any language. Therefore JVM != Java

You could write a JVM in brainfuck if you wanted to. That doesn't mean Kotlin isn't a much more sane language than brainfuck.




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