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Re:Kotlin: statically typed programming language that compil... by cageface on Saturday December 29, 2012 @06:34PM (#4983902)
Scala puts too much pressure on the GC to be a good candidate for Android development and the complexity of its syntax makes developing good tool support very difficult.

Since I only write Java for Android Kotlin is already way ahead of Scala on my list for both reasons.

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Re:Kotlin: statically typed programming language that compil... by vorg on Saturday December 29, 2012 @07:44PM (#4984041)
Scala has very simple syntax. Most of the "complexity" is names of classes and methods in libraries.
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Re:Kotlin: statically typed programming language that compil... by sonyandy on Saturday December 29, 2012 @08:03PM (#4984086)
Simple syntax is not the same as simple semantics.
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