Comment by nobleach

I like your take on Kotlin being Typescript with a better build system. I often show our Kotlin devs our Typescript apps and say, "see, it's very close... we just add semicolons". Many of them are former Java devs, so they're used to blindly believing, "JavaScript == bad". (yes, everyone can see what I did there) I like showing that it can actually be quite good in some ways. For high performance db crunching, I strongly prefer Kotlin. But for pure network services, REST request to sending files via SFTP, Typescript is really nice.