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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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The reason is Google kept Android stuck on Java 6 syntax for so long that the community moved on. At the time, moving from Java to Kotlin was a huge deal and then Jetbrains made a good job in making the tools work flawlessly and with no performance penalties as everything is compiled to Java bytecode (besides the nice interoperability).
Now Java has been upgraded on Android but it was too late.