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2026-04-09 06:19
Why I Built JADEx Instead of Switching to Kotlin
Every Java team eventually has that conversation. Someone opens a PR, there's a NullPointerException in production, and someone says: "We should just migrate to Kotlin." I've had that conversation. And I get it — Kotlin is genuinely good. But every time I looked at a migration seriously, the same problems came up: existing codebase, team familiarity, Spring Boot annotation processing qui...