Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future

Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by pankajdoharey on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:33AM (#15740574)

Does anyone remember Groovy this is just a fad Kotlin would be forgotten with time, i fail to see the real technical innovation in Kotlin.

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Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by nerdponx on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:38AM (#15740632)

Since you seem to have some technical expertise in this area and strong opinions, it would be nice if you explained why you felt that way, for the benefit of us who are not experts. AFAIK Groovy is currently in use at lots of very major companies.

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Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by pjmlp on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:03PM (#15741776)

At least for Android development it will be quite an improvement.

Google made their Java fork, for Java 7 and 8 they only cherry picked features, even after migrating to OpenJDK.

The newly introduced bytecodes are not supported and the situation will only get worse with Java 9 and the new OpenJDK release schedule.

Specially given the lack of updates across the Android eco-system.

So only something like Kotlin allows to enjoy modern JVM languages while targeting Android.

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