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Re:Ask HN: What about the Kotlin hype? by datalist on Saturday May 20, 2017 @06:55AM (#14381812)
Thanks for your response. My issue here is not so much that Kotlin borrowed features but that it appears many credit Kotlin now for those feature, when in fact most of it has been already available under Groovy a decade before Kotlin came out.
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Re:Ask HN: What about the Kotlin hype? by limeblack on Saturday May 20, 2017 @01:19PM (#14383359)
Would you like examples of what makes Kotlin more unique or different then Groovy? Just at a glance it appears scoping is handly differently then groovy. Also the official language says it supports compiling to JavaScript on the website while its another project for Groovy. Gooscript hasn't been available since 2012. I wouldn't be surprised if Google hopes or plans for people to adopt this for both web and Android development.
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Re:Ask HN: What about the Kotlin hype? by vorg on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:52AM (#14386869)
> Gooscript hasn't been available since 2012

Grooscript 1.3 was released in Sep 2016, only 8 months ago [1]. It does only have one or two developers working on it part-time as far as I can tell. I can't imagine too many people would want to put time into Grooscript (Groovy for Javascript) when Apache Groovy (Groovy for the JVM) is languishing, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooscript

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