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Re: Learn Kotlin in Y Minutes

#3
It looks like there's been a very conscious effort to strike a midpoint between Java's familiar clunkiness and Scala's hipster experimental side.

I think that's a good thing, you end up with a language that feels pragmatic and powerfully practical.

Re: Learn Kotlin in Y Minutes

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Kotlin's taken over HN.

Deservedly so. It is a great language, and it's backed by the ultra-power JVM. You can use a hipster language with great features and still use JodaTime and maven and all the enterprise stuff that just works.

Re: Learn Kotlin in Y Minutes

#9
In terms of why we'd want to, there is this note here: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-java.htm...

Other factors to consider are tools support, how often interoprability with java libraries causes problems. Would be nice to hear from someone who has used it a bit about what the state of these is?

Re: Learn Kotlin in Y Minutes

#10
Honestly I could never really get into Kotlin. I like the features of the language - and would love to have many of them in plain ol' Java - but the syntax just feels wrong to me and I've not been able to get over it.
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