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Re:Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library by agumonkey on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:17PM (#13478464)
I find the compiler a "tad" slow, just a tad, I don't know if it's a matter of prioritization or semantics. If the thing was javac-ish, I'd probably make it a daily driver.
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Re:Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library by jorgemf on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:31PM (#13478539)
Completely agree with you, and I wouldn't expect it to be faster than javac as it needs more semantic processing. (some pleople find it faster: https://medium.com/keepsafe-engineering/kotlin-vs-java-compi... )

What I think it is slower right now are the tools. Sometimes IdeaJ stucks. I guess they will be improving the performance slowly as right now they are other things in the language more important to focus.

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Re:Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library by vbezhenar on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:17AM (#13480211)
Jetbrains uses Kotlin for their own projects, including Intellij Idea. So you can be sure, that its support will be reasonably good, they use it themselves after all.
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