Aside from the often cited nullability issue, here is an (incomplete) list of important things that Kotlin still does better than Java:
- First class, fully functional closures.
- Non-abstract classes and methods are final by default.
- Named parameters.
- Easy to write iterators via sequence { ... }
- First class support for unsigned types.
- First class, fully functional closures. - Non-abstract classes and methods are final by default. - Named parameters. - Easy to write iterators via sequence { ... } - First class support for unsigned types.