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Re:Kotlin for Data Analysis by hocuspocus on Thursday August 29, 2024 @07:15AM (#41389589)
Kotlin isn't the first language offering any of these features, not even remotely.

Even if you look only at the JVM: Scala is much older.

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Re:Kotlin for Data Analysis by binkHN on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:18AM (#41391702)
I think the point is Kotlin incorporated great stuff from a few languages, Scala being one of them.
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Re:Kotlin for Data Analysis by hocuspocus on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:38AM (#41391952)
... which is the exact opposite of being "the first".
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Re:Kotlin for Data Analysis by mike_hearn on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:48PM (#41392782)
Scala isn't "python weight" as it's much keener on obscure operators and other syntax sugar than Kotlin or Python.
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Re:Kotlin for Data Analysis by hocuspocus on Thursday August 29, 2024 @02:08PM (#41393654)
What are the obscure methods in the standard library?

Kotlin has grown into a much quirkier language overall, its grammar is significantly bigger than that of Scala.

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Re:Kotlin for Data Analysis by sn9 on Friday August 30, 2024 @04:58PM (#41404366)
Haskell and SML are even older.
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