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Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by jrempel on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:17PM (#21728013)
Kotlin has its own stdlib which runs on multiple platforms other than JVM.

I've used Java, Python, Ruby, Go and Kotlin. Kotlin is def my favorite and goto. Do you have any specific examples/complaints?

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Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by RivieraKid on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:49PM (#21728148)
Interesting, I find Kotlin just marginally better than Java. It doesn't have checked exceptions which is annoying. You can't use a simple return in lambda functions.

As for other languages: Python is ok for smaller stuff. I don't like Go. My favourite languages are probably Swift and Julia. And recently, I've grown to really like C++ although I used to hate it.

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Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by phreack on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:24AM (#21728977)
What do you mean by simple return? If you need granularity you can `return@scope`
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Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by vips7L on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:53PM (#21728157)
> Kotlin has its own stdlib

Barely. You can't even read a file without java.io.

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Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by erikdared on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:28PM (#21728274)
They just announced a bunch of additions to the stdlib (including I/O) at KotlinConf in order to better support multiplatform
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