Is Kotlin an evolutionary dead end?

[cantanima]

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Many arguments are about personal taste or habits, but there were some arguments calling Kotlin an “evolutinary dead end” because:

• Java gets better and more ergonomic with every release, what would make Kotlin less appealing.
• Java and Kotlin would gradually diverge. Kotlin would not be able to follow Java’s syntax and semantics as close as in the past, because not every Kotlin feature can be mapped to new Java features nicely.

This sounds a lot like what someone 20 years ago might have written about Java and C#.

…or 30 years ago about C++ and C.

…or 50 years ago about Algol and C.

(mutatis mutandis, of course)