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why kotlin is better than whatever dumb language you're using. ah, clickbait.  where would the internet be without it?  the answer will shock you! but seriously, i didn't mean to insult your favorite language… much.  after all, your language of choice is probably getting better at a glacial pace.  right?  if your language isn't dead, then it's gradually getting better as they release updates to it. how slowly, though?  well.. if the language you're using happens to be ja*a, then you've no doubt realized that by the time ja*a becomes a really good language, you'll be dead.  loooong dead.  i know we don't like to contemplate our own mortality, but when you plot the trajectory of ja*a from its birth 20+ years ago to its full knee and hip replacement with ja*a 8, you can't help but wonder, am i going to be stuck with this for literally the rest of my life? what if this is as good as it gets? anyhoo, i ran across the old language question again because i finally tried my hand at android development.  i have an ios client didn't realize that it would turn into a language question (as in, what the hell am i doing with my life?)  but then, if you've done any android programming at all, you'll know that this is in fact a burning question in android-land. my first attempt at doing android was last summer, and my god it su*ked.  i mean, they warned me.  everyone warned me. the apis are how terrible could they be, though?  it's just ja*a, right? unfortunately -- for long complicated legacy reasons that nobody cares about -- some of android's core apis really are bad.  i mean baaaaad bad.  shut the book, take a de*p breath, and go out for coffee bad.  the warnings were spot on. it's a mixed bag, though.  a lot of their apis are just ducky. i found plenty of things that are hard in ios and easy in android.  product flavors, the do*nloads service, findviewbyid(), the preferences activity, etc.  there is a ton of stuff in android that