I think we get it, every languages are like Kotlin!
Quite opposite - Kotlin is like every language ;)
Kotlin is like TypeScript
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#22"Happy languages are all alike; every unhappy language is unhappy in its own way".
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#23 name: string;
constructor(name: string) {
this.name = name
}
constructor(public name: string) { }
And the TypeScript ones have the value `undefined` (unfortunate that strictNullChecks doesn't catch things like that https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/8476).
And for some nitpicking, please be consistent with your semicolons, either use them or don't use them, but don't mix it randomly like that.
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#24TypeScript has structural typing, that is a HUGE difference.
Ya, I'm not away of any other popular OO language that goes this route. The implications of structural sub-typing are huge, though I guess many programmers wouldn't be able to call it out.
Scala has it. With Shapeless, you can go all crazy with it.
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#25Re: Kotlin is like TypeScript
#26Is this Kotlin the new "Erlang" of the HN' first page?
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#27Kotlin is also like Kotlin
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> modern features like type inherence, null-safe, closure This is one of the more annoying problems with our industry. People rediscover solutions from 60s and 70s and sell them as if they were new and revolutionary...
Still waiting for web developers to rediscover 90's RAD tooling.
I don't think we're ever going to go back to that. Those UIs were pretty static, i.e. you only created the "initial state" in the UI designer, and then modified it during the application run-time (sometimes even creating new widgets in code), or attached some kind of data-binding models to it.
With the popularity of things like React, you now have a powerful way to express how the UI looks in every state, not just the initial one.
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#29This is getting ridiculous
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#30TypeScript has structural typing, that is a HUGE difference.
Yes, that would be its biggest differentiator.
Scala has it too indeed, but it's not the default mode and feels awkward, also has known limitations.
The nice thing with typescript is that structural typing makes sense for 90% of the use cases, and for the remaining 10%, you can very easily simulate nominal typing by adding a field like so:
interface Robot { __Robot: true }