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Re:KotCity – an open-source city simulation game written in ... by pasta on Sunday March 18, 2018 @02:26AM (#16610693)
This.

And Kotlin might be the future language for Android.

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Re:KotCity – an open-source city simulation game written in ... by kotcity on Sunday March 18, 2018 @02:34AM (#16610711)
With the Java interop such a high priority for the Kotlin team over at JetBrains, Kotlin is sneaking its way into all kinds of Java environments -- from LOB apps to APIs, Java Web Services, etc.

Java might be a little annoying to wield, but the JVM is actually quite nice.

Whomever at JetBrains put a premium on Java interop should get a medal, because it's a VERY low friction move to go from Java development to Kotlin. You can port your project one file at a time and the tooling is excellent.

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Re:KotCity – an open-source city simulation game written in ... by pjmlp on Sunday March 18, 2018 @11:40AM (#16612427)
That is a nice goal, but it remains to be seen.

I have dabbled with all major JVM languages, yet if it wasn't for Spark and now Android, no customer would allow us to use anything besides Java itself.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=java,kotlin,cloju...

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