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Re:Problems with Kotlin by interestingemu on Thursday March 16, 2017 @12:11PM (#13886203)
Isn't pure Kotlin a much more unlikely scenario than pure Scala? Kotlin devs certainly take pride at every opportunity of how much Kotlin piggybacks on Java, cf. collections.

I think you can't have it both ways, having a worse abstraction for handling errors while claiming that it works better with Java code and then claiming that "pure Kotlin code" is where the more interesting case is.

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Re:Problems with Kotlin by hota_mazi on Thursday March 16, 2017 @12:44PM (#13886485)
No, JetBrains is actually working on Kotlin Native [1].

[1] https://kotlinlang.slack.com/messages/kotlin-native/

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Re:Problems with Kotlin by interestingemu on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:02PM (#13887309)
Yes, exactly, which makes the claim even more baffling.

Sure, they can just reimplement all their Java dependencies, but if they have to implement e.g. collections anyway, they could just have designed a better API in the first place, instead of being stuck with Java collections on platforms that don't even run Java.

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