Seven of my biggest takeaways after a rare podcast with the creator of Kotlin, @abreslav 1. Kotlin was born because Java stagnated for six years. By 2010, the last major Java release was Java 5 (2004). Java 6 (released in 2006) made zero language changes, Java 7 (released in 2011) made minor ones, and lambdas didn’t arrive until 2014. Meanwhile C# had lambdas, properties, and more — creating a clear market opening. 2. Kotlin’s first version was not a compiler: it was an IDE plugin (!!) In…