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Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records by pjmlp on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:07PM (#22239649)
Kotlin fans keep forgetting that without the Java platform, meaning the JVM, standard library and Maven central, Kotlin would be a non-starter.

No guest language ever took over a platform.

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Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records by joshlemer on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:15AM (#22244431)
It might be argued that Elixir is more popular than Erlang these days.
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Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records by pjmlp on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:18AM (#22244932)
Yet without Erlang and the libraries written in Erlang (OTP), Elixir wouldn't stand on its own.
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