Kotlin's got more "noise" around it lately though, so I suspect adoption will be quicker. Also, GMC is bigger than Red Hat, and while Telegram is smaller for sure, it's got a decent amount of weight to it. Both use Kotlin (at least according to the Kotlin homepage).
Gavin King is famous for three things in the Java world: creating the leaky-abstraction-riddled ORM Hibernate that never quite behaves the way you want, creating the never-really-used DI lib Seam that is notorious for being difficult to test and configure (despite standardized "javax" APIs), and being a difficult personality to work with.
Multiple compilation targets are a downside when:
- It means that as a user of the language I have to write different code because the collections/scoping on one target behave much differently than on another
- It means that as a maintainer of the language, I have to try to make core language features work with multiple very-different compilation targets, making the codebase N times harder to maintain, and usually meaning either that the language stagnates for long periods or that one platform is treated as "primary" and the others are second-class citizens that trail behind (see Scala on the JVM vs Scala.js, Clojure vs Clojurescript, F# vs Websharper, etc).
Gavin King is famous for three things in the Java world: creating the leaky-abstraction-riddled ORM Hibernate that never quite behaves the way you want, creating the never-really-used DI lib Seam that is notorious for being difficult to test and configure (despite standardized "javax" APIs), and being a difficult personality to work with.
Multiple compilation targets are a downside when: - It means that as a user of the language I have to write different code because the collections/scoping on one target behave much differently than on another - It means that as a maintainer of the language, I have to try to make core language features work with multiple very-different compilation targets, making the codebase N times harder to maintain, and usually meaning either that the language stagnates for long periods or that one platform is treated as "primary" and the others are second-class citizens that trail behind (see Scala on the JVM vs Scala.js, Clojure vs Clojurescript, F# vs Websharper, etc).