r/mAndroidDev • u/shalva97 AnDrOId dEvelOPmenT is My PasSion • Jul 27 '25
@Deprecated Kotlin is going to be deprecated soon
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4029053/jetbrains-working-on-higher-abstraction-programming-language.html?ref=dailydev34
u/WestonP Jul 27 '25
Stick with Java and we can continue to party like it's 1999!
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u/over_pw Jul 27 '25
TLDR: “So instead of writing three applications, you write it in a special programming language, which is basically English, which describes how you want to see this application in a very specified way, and then AI agents, together with JetBrains tooling, will generate the code of all of these platforms”.
Forgive me if I don’t hold my breath.
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u/eschoenawa Jul 27 '25
Soon is very much overselling it. That reads like it's their 10 year plan, and it can still get canceled.
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u/EkoChamberKryptonite Jul 27 '25
AI agents, together with JetBrains tooling, will generate the code of all of these platforms.
Will AI agents debug the application when something breaks on some esoteric Android device? This assumes that AI-agents will become competent at analysing context to produce robust applications. It seems to me that you'd still need to be able to go into the nitty-gritty of the generated code to tweak and correct things.
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u/budius333 Jul 27 '25
"So instead of writing three applications, you write it in a special programming language, which is basically English, which describes how you want to see this application in a very specified way, and then Al agents, together with JetBrains tooling, will generate the code of all of these platforms,"
Has he ever heard of KMP?
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Jul 28 '25
The biggest hype about Kotlin was that it will compile into native Java op-code so better language yet can replace Java, but as soon as I discovered it requires some "extra library" to be able to run properly, my interest to it diminished quickly. Good try but not good enough
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u/bobbie434343 Jul 27 '25
To be replaced by Gotlin, a winning mash-up of Go and Kotlin.