Ask HN: What about the Kotlin hype?

Re:Ask HN: What about the Kotlin hype? by kristoft on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:58AM (#14381121)

I think, one of the main features that makes Kotlin a bit better than other JVM languages is full compatibility with Java. And by full I mean 100% with no exceptions.

And Kotlin became good choice for android developers a long ago before io2017) Official support means a better tooling, nothing more

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Re:Ask HN: What about the Kotlin hype? by datalist on Saturday May 20, 2017 @05:19AM (#14381590)

Can you give an example where Groovy would be less compatible?

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Re:Ask HN: What about the Kotlin hype? by vorg on Sunday May 21, 2017 @08:02AM (#14386894)

Because Kotlin is the language being financially supported by a business, perhaps it's better to ask for an example where Groovy is more compatible than Kotlin. The only example I can think of is scripting in Grails. Even Grails 3, which was released over 2 years ago at the same time VMware ended its paid support for Groovy, only uses Groovy for its scripting.

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Re:Ask HN: What about the Kotlin hype? by kristoft on Sunday May 21, 2017 @01:45AM (#14385879)

I think it would be hard to call dynamic groovy types from java

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