Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
by tomerbd on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:24AM
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Many companies started using Scala a ~5 years ago, it was better, there was no reason not to, until the developers found that better is not as good as do the basic stuff that works and holds to the future have proven past, and have many more developers and more people in community this is what rules the game.
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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
by CuriouslyC on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:25AM
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I don't think Scala is a good comparison. Due to the fact that it has a large surface area and there is a lot of magic in places, it's harder to learn than Kotlin. Also, Scala suffers from C++ syndrome, where a team of developers that all nominally know the same language can actually know somewhat incompatible subsets of it.
I think the Typescript/Javascript comparison is more apt, and at this point I'm pretty sure that Typescript will win.
Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
by gbersac on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:54AM
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As a scala fan, I think comparing Java and Scala is a bad idea. Scala is functionnal programming on the JVM and Java is OO. Kotlin and Java, on the other hand are both OO programming language and should have a smooth transition.