Re:Xtend – Modernized Java
by kitd on Friday April 04, 2014 @07:31AM
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Xtext, the Eclipse/JVM language development toolkit behind Xtend, is in many ways more interesting than Xtend itself. In fact (I may be wrong) but Xtend was really done as an Xtext example/test/advertisement.
I have used Xtend a little (not in production) and it was interesting when first introduced. I suspect Java 8 will make it redundant.
Re:Xtend – Modernized Java
by pjmlp on Friday April 04, 2014 @08:54AM
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My feelings as well. I just looked into it as a possible language for Android development given the stagnation on Java compliance on the platform, but Kotlin looks much better suited for it given Google's investment into InteliJ.
I have used Xtend a little (not in production) and it was interesting when first introduced. I suspect Java 8 will make it redundant.