Hi everyone, As part of work on the proposed Cluster Management API ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Cluster+Management+Service), some of us have been exploring introducing Kotlin into the codebase. One of the things I personally love about Kotlin is null references being controlled by the type system, reducing the incidence of null pointer errors.
Other pros can be found here: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-java.html We have made a very basic PR as to how this could potentially work. Personally, I see this usecase as less of a chance to shine for Kotlin than other potential usecases within geode, because of the fact that we'd still end up using a lot of Java objects from geode-core in order to exercise the "create region" functionality. However, I could make a case for Kotlin just from the fact that it is a more modern language. Would love to get people's feedback on what they think about introducing Kotlin to the geode codebase, and whether it makes sense for the Cluster Management API. https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/3049 Thanks, -Aditya
