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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by gibolt on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:11AM (#22254371)
I would mostly disagree. You get all the Java solutions plus the Kotlin ones. Few languages have that much support.

Within ~2 years, native things will hopefully become sufficient, but the state now isn't gloom and doom.

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by pjmlp on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:08AM (#22255416)
That is exactly the biggest problem with guest languages, instead of being happy with what is already there, they duplicate the eco-system.

So now for every problem we need to consider Java + Guest Language idiomatic libraries + alternative build tools + alternative IDE, across the whole corporation.

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by damnyou on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:04AM (#22256452)
Yeah well, it's hard to be happy with what's already there when that's fucking Java.
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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by sinstein on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:22AM (#22254416)
We use a Dropwizard Application written in Kotlin and I have had a very hard time finding examples and tutorials and have had to translate from Java most of the time.

Ofcourse I am banking on resources improving with time.

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by davnicwil on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:44AM (#22256833)
Other than that, what's been your experience using kotlin with dropwizard? How would you compare it to Java?
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