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I started an open source Android project in Kotlin ( https://github.com/dodyg ) three years ago so I have witnessed the language evolution from early on. This is what I love about Kotlin: - It is IMHO the best language to develop native application in Android by far. - I was primarily a C# developer (still now) and I could pick up the language in a day. The language is quite small for people that has already known a…
I started an open source Android project in Kotlin ( https://github.com/dodyg ) three years ago so I have witnessed the language evolution from early on. This is what I love about Kotlin: - It is IMHO the best language to develop native application in Android by far. - I was primarily a C# developer (still now) and I could pick up the language in a day. The language is quite small for people that has already known a…
What is the 'swift syndrome'?
But I could be wrong.
I started an open source Android project in Kotlin ( https://github.com/dodyg ) three years ago so I have witnessed the language evolution from early on. This is what I love about Kotlin: - It is IMHO the best language to develop native application in Android by far. - I was primarily a C# developer (still now) and I could pick up the language in a day. The language is quite small for people that has already known a…
What is the 'swift syndrome'?
but the hype was mostly done by the apple disciples iirc, so it might be a little unfair to hold that against the language.
I started an open source Android project in Kotlin ( https://github.com/dodyg ) three years ago so I have witnessed the language evolution from early on. This is what I love about Kotlin: - It is IMHO the best language to develop native application in Android by far. - I was primarily a C# developer (still now) and I could pick up the language in a day. The language is quite small for people that has already known a…
What is the 'swift syndrome'?
However, Python 2/3 is a better example for breaking backwards compatibility.
At JetBrains we're using Kotlin on a few projects now. Some of them are internal, some are public facing. In addition, some of our existing (and new) products are now using Kotlin. IntelliJ IDEA 15 will be shipping with Kotlin plugin enabled by default. Kotlin is a tool we created out of need. We're using it and we're relying on it, so I'd say it's got a very good long term viability.
Also I still miss a good build tool. I mean Maven really sucks, Gradle is kind of okai, but there is no support of autoreload project on change (like sbt has via sbt-revolver or playframework internals) however that is mostly helping web development.
Also some other things aren't really written out, like threading or some kind of Akka stuff. Also these days a language needs Dependency Injection, a good Integration with JSR330 would be great.
Also for some functional workflows something like pattern matching would be great and a @tailrec annotation like scala.
And please, for gods sake, remove labels and break/while.
At JetBrains we're using Kotlin on a few projects now. Some of them are internal, some are public facing. In addition, some of our existing (and new) products are now using Kotlin. IntelliJ IDEA 15 will be shipping with Kotlin plugin enabled by default. Kotlin is a tool we created out of need. We're using it and we're relying on it, so I'd say it's got a very good long term viability.
What Kotlin still misses is somehow a good testing ability, to test it via Java Test Suites seems strange. Also I still miss a good build tool. I mean Maven really sucks, Gradle is kind of okai, but there is no support of autoreload project on change (like sbt has via sbt-revolver or playframework internals) however that is mostly helping web development. Also some other things aren't really written out, like threadi…
I wrote about Kotlin quite some time ago.[0] I have to say that at the time, I was quite impressed by it all. There were some really good features, it had a much smaller dependency compared to Scala, and so packaging a Kotlin application was a lot easier than say an application in Scala. But to answer your question, there are a few benefits and drawbacks of Kotlin as a language and a platform: + World class IDE suppo…
As someone who writes Android/Java code for the day job but who prefers coding in Go whenever I have the chance, I'd love for this happen but I doubt it will anytime in the foreseeable future.
There's just way too much invested in all of the Android Java Platform/UI/etc APIs which would make little to no sense in Go even if you had good bindings for them.
Go will be increasingly supported in Android and it'll get some uptake from people writing games and apps that are primarily OpenGL based, but I just don't see how they could (without investing an absolute giant amount of resources and causing all sorts of developer balkanization), get from where the Android platform is now to an equivalent environment that is properly Go-esque for apps that make heavy use of the higher level platform APIs.
At JetBrains we're using Kotlin on a few projects now. Some of them are internal, some are public facing. In addition, some of our existing (and new) products are now using Kotlin. IntelliJ IDEA 15 will be shipping with Kotlin plugin enabled by default. Kotlin is a tool we created out of need. We're using it and we're relying on it, so I'd say it's got a very good long term viability.
What Kotlin still misses is somehow a good testing ability, to test it via Java Test Suites seems strange. Also I still miss a good build tool. I mean Maven really sucks, Gradle is kind of okai, but there is no support of autoreload project on change (like sbt has via sbt-revolver or playframework internals) however that is mostly helping web development. Also some other things aren't really written out, like threadi…
Why?
> I mean Maven really sucks
Why?
> Also these days a language needs Dependency Injection
There's plenty of JVM libraries that provide it. Why does a language need to provide it?