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Re:Kotlin 1.4 Released with a Focus on Quality and Performance by The_rationalist on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:28PM (#24190893)
Kotlin is by far the most well designed language I've ever seen, can't wait for the 1.5 to bring destructuring in pattern matching!
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Re:Kotlin 1.4 Released with a Focus on Quality and Performance by SureshG on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:06PM (#24193773)
Exactly, not just the language all the tooling (jvm tools) and IDE are also top notch. Really waiting for the new compiler frontend, which brings huge improvements to compile time.

Where did you get that info about patter matching?. By the way, java is really catching up on that.

https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/tree/master/eg-drafts

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Re:Kotlin 1.4 Released with a Focus on Quality and Performance by kryth on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:55PM (#24192659)
I agree. Kotlin is insanely comfy to program in. Lots of convenient features, good design, doesn't force annoying OOP boilerplate or FP constructs on me.
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Re:Kotlin 1.4 Released with a Focus on Quality and Performance by leguy on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:30PM (#24194001)
What other languages have you worked with? I enjoy Kotlin, but also think Swift (from my limited experience) and C# are wonderful.
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