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Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by tome on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:17AM (#15787040)
I realised we went through all this nearly two years ago and failed to get anywhere!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11907547

I'm afraid I still can't understand your position.

Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by pron on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:25AM (#15787090)
I don't think it's complicated, but it is very much anti-dogmatic. I've written it above, but I'll repeat it. My position is that design is a matter of aesthetics (completely subjective) and pragmatics (also subjective, but can be measured empirically) -- not theory -- and aesthetics and pragmatics are the sources of value -- again, not theory.