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It's been a while since I stumbled over a blog post where a qualified
programmer writes an enthusiastic text on a programming language.

Today, I read [[http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-kotlin-is-better-than-whatever-dumb.html][Why Kotlin Is Better Than Whatever Dumb Language You're
Using]] by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge][Steve Yegge]] who has quite some reputation in ranting. This
time, he wrote almost a love story about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_%28programming_language%29][Kotlin]]. It's a language by
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains][JetBrains]], the company behind the programming IDE [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliJ_IDEA][IntelliJ IDEA]].

That's a good thing: a programming language designed by programmers
with excellent support within an IDE.

Kotlin became a first-class support language for programming the
Android platform. This is where Steve got in touch with Kotlin. He
loves how Kotlin makes coding for Android fun again.

Besides his lyrical blog post (it's a love-at-first-sight story) I did
find it interesting that he is using the [[id:tags-emacs][Emacs]] editor to code and then
switches to IntelliJ IDEA with its excellent support for Kotlin to fix
his errors. Quite a bold argument for Emacs as an IDE.