Re:The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here
by jinst8gmi on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:49PM
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Yeah, Kotlin looks largely like a simpler, stripped down version of Scala. It's a lot closer to Scala than it is to Java, but it's close enough to Java devs to not have to put in much effort to learn vs learning Scala. I prefer Scala, but not everyone wants to invest the time to learn it in order to gain maybe 25% more expressiveness. Kotlin also seems like a better fit for Android than Scala (and Java for that matter).
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Re:The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here
by justthistime_ on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:07PM
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In what sense is it closer to Scala? It's more like a slightly nicer Java: All Kotlin code can be translated back to Java (with some boilerplate), but almost no Scala code could be expressed gracefully in Kotlin (or Java).