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Migrating from Java 6 to Kotlin

I have some projects in Java 6 and Spring on app server. Because of limitations in my infrastructure and governance planninng I cannot migrate to newer Java 7 or 8.

I think i could add Kotlin in those projects to use features like functional programming.

It this approach a good way to go?

Thanks

Solution

  • In my opinion Kotlin is a great language because it addresses all the pain points from Java in terms of boiler plate code and adds all of this plus functional programming to Java 6 (your target Java version)

    So go ahead and give it a try. If you use IntelliJ you can convert Java files to Kotlin and vice versa.