The Kotlin Foundation
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The Kotlin Foundation
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Re: The Kotlin Foundation
#2Rust, Python and now Kotlin.
Just as PSF promoted Google to visionary sponsor, although I understand Jetbrains, but we see yet again our saviour Google on the board of yet another language, even after Rust formed its foundation.
I guess I have no choice to accept this future we've put ourselves in.
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#3Must be feeling some pressure because they've redesigned that homepage three or four times in a very short time.
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#4Rust, Python and now Kotlin. Just as PSF promoted Google to visionary sponsor, although I understand Jetbrains, but we see yet again our saviour Google on the board of yet another language, even after Rust formed its foundation. I guess I have no choice to accept this future we've put ourselves in.
well Google's using all three in different ways...
and another trend on prog. langs: they're becoming more and more similar feature-wise (eg. pattern matching)
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#5Next entity for the killed-by-google-graveyard?
Joke aside, seems that kotlin is a niche player and will remain a better Java until something like Rust eventually takes over the enterprise market.
Re: The Kotlin Foundation
#6Rust, Python and now Kotlin. Just as PSF promoted Google to visionary sponsor, although I understand Jetbrains, but we see yet again our saviour Google on the board of yet another language, even after Rust formed its foundation. I guess I have no choice to accept this future we've put ourselves in.
I understand that side (and I'm personally against Google's behavior, hegemony and influence on almost everything). But Google is one of the few companies that gives back to projects they use. You can't say that of many other companies that use tools and make sure they never contribute back (either financially or as code). As long as they don't put their adcrap in any of those languages or the things around them...
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#7If you missed it, the latest investment from Google to the Kotlin compiler is the KSP plugin:
https://github.com/google/ksp
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#8Regarding Google sponsoring every language, it's a well-known practice that Wall Street banks are the main donnors of both Democrats and Republicans.
No better way to eliminate competing platforms than buying them up.
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#9Next entity for the killed-by-google-graveyard? Joke aside, seems that kotlin is a niche player and will remain a better Java until something like Rust eventually takes over the enterprise market.
Android development is a huge “niche”.
I don’t see how Rust displaces Java or Kotlin. It’s very different with different use cases that it’s suited for and different strengths and weaknesses.
Kotlin also seamlessly inter operates with Java, which is a big deal for any company with a large existing Java code base, which are legion.
Re: The Kotlin Foundation
#10Next entity for the killed-by-google-graveyard? Joke aside, seems that kotlin is a niche player and will remain a better Java until something like Rust eventually takes over the enterprise market.
Kotlin is slowly getting in the industry as well. But really comparing Rust and Java (meaning the JVM, its languages and all the libs and tools) is not fair. They have different targets and respond to different needs. Of course, like everything, there are problems where their capabilities overlap and they would both work really well. But I have trouble believing this "new language that will rule them all" idea. We didn't really see that happen anywhere (or maybe we did and I'm missing an example of that).