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Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by adamnemecek on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:57AM (#15740255)
But then you'd be writing JavaScript and who wants that. TypeScript is maybe ok-ish but TS is just putting a lipstick on a pig. Like, ignoring other issues, JVM at least has decent concurrency and with quasar, you get processes similar to erlang.
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Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by rictic on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:36AM (#15740615)
What about the other side of that coin. Does a small amount of idiomatic Kotlin compile down to a small amount of JS, or a large amount (in bytes, after gzip)?
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Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by adamnemecek on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:41AM (#15740648)
I don't have extensive experience with it but it's not too bad compared with other JS transpilers.
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