Why Kotlin is my next programming language (2015)
&gt; Kotlin comes from industry, not academia. It solves problems faced by working programmers today. As an example, the type system helps you avoid null pointer exceptions.<p>I&#x27;m sorry but you just undercut your own anti-intellectualism better than I could right there.<p>(There exist languages which have guarded against this without loss of expressive power since <i>before Java</i> and, oh, are from academia.)