Re:Rise of Kotlin: A Programming Language for the Next Gener...
by phillipcarter on Thursday July 05, 2018 @12:25PM
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> People are going TO Kotlin as opposed to the usually Ocaml/F#/Haskell/Idris/Agda world of the community trying to bring people in.
The familiarity of C-style syntax and object orientation immediately places Kotlin above ML-style programming languages from the standpoint of adoption. It's a bit unfortunate that this is the case, but selling Android developers on a better C-style OO language than Java is a lot easier than selling them on something different.
The familiarity of C-style syntax and object orientation immediately places Kotlin above ML-style programming languages from the standpoint of adoption. It's a bit unfortunate that this is the case, but selling Android developers on a better C-style OO language than Java is a lot easier than selling them on something different.