Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:51PM
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Are you saying that Scala isn't popular, but Kotlin is? If so, what threshold are you using for "popular", that you think Kotlin exceeds but Scala doesn't?
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Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records
by SureshG on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @11:42PM
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More recent JVM ecosystem survey - https://snyk.io/blog/kotlin-overtakes-scala-and-clojure-to-b...
Interesting survey, any ideas about what the audience of the survey was? (For trying to understand what kind of biases it might have in regards to non-Java languages)
Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records
by lokedhs on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:19AM
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I think being the recommended language for Android development makes it pretty popular.
Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records
by AnimalMuppet on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:34AM
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Replying late, so you probably won't see this. Replying anyway, so I look less stupid in the future.
The survey SureshG put forward (in a post parallel to yours) shows Kotlin twice the size of Scala (which surprised me), and Java something like 15 times the size of Kotlin. So to say that Kotlin is popular, but Scala isn't, seems to me to be drawing the line in a fairly arbitrary place. It seems more reasonable to say that neither is popular, or that both are.
"But Android" you say. Well, that will make Kotlin pretty popular, but it hasn't yet. In the future, you'll be right. That's why I added this. In the future, my post is going to look pretty silly without this context.