You could try extending your candidate pool if you haven’t yet. Java devs are the fastest to onboard for Kotlin, also Scala, and vice versa. The stdlib APIs and the third-party libraries are the same, plus you get the Kotlin libraries. Lots of modern Java projects transition piecewise to Kotlin, so often hiring for Java turns out to be for Kotlin, in part or in whole.
That is a good call. Having platform knowledge is definitely a plus, but core language skills are probably more important considering the minimal complexity of our system.
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You could try extending your candidate pool if you haven’t yet. Java devs are the fastest to onboard for Kotlin, also Scala, and vice versa. The stdlib APIs and the third-party libraries are the same, plus you get the Kotlin libraries. Lots of modern Java projects transition piecewise to Kotlin, so often hiring for Java turns out to be for Kotlin, in part or in whole.
That is a good call. Having platform knowledge is definitely a plus, but core language skills are probably more important considering the minimal complexity of our system.