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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by Too on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:11AM (#26033362)
Yes, but the other way around :)

Kotlin solved the syntax and language warts on top of a good runtime.

For python the syntax is (mostly) good but the runtime and package management needs a rehaul.

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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by dehrmann on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:48AM (#26033788)
> mostly

Bolted-on classes and types annotations, and missing real lambdas isn't awesome, and lack of proper variable scoping is error-prone.

I agree that the runtime is a mess, but more in naming inconsistencies and how its organized than functionality.

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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by pjmlp on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:32AM (#26034267)
Kotlin solved Google's Android problem, on the JVM it is just another radar noise in the set of guest languages.
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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by tpxl on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:47AM (#26036806)
Kotlin was developed by JetBrains, not Google, as a 'better Java'.
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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by pjmlp on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:54AM (#26036910)
So what? #KotlinFirst is being pushed by Google.

Android is the only place where Kotlin actually matters.

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