Kotlin, the Swift of Android

Re:Kotlin, the Swift of Android by V-2 on Monday September 01, 2014 @12:40PM (#8253683)

Kotlin has stuff that's unlikely to appear in Java, such as reified generics - Java has already chosen type erasure generics instead. I wouldn't bet a penny that they ever change this approach if they didn't go with it from the start.

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Re:Kotlin, the Swift of Android by udalov on Monday September 01, 2014 @02:04PM (#8254020)

In fact Kotlin doesn't have reified generics. This idea was planned in the beginning and was reflected in the old docs but abandoned later. I believe there's no reference to reified generics on the new web site anymore.

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Re:Kotlin, the Swift of Android by V-2 on Friday September 05, 2014 @03:24AM (#8272694)

Huh, you're right! That's a pity

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Re:Kotlin, the Swift of Android by pron on Monday September 01, 2014 @02:37PM (#8254154)

Java is getting reified generics via a really cool mechanism called classdynamic (which also enables efficient implementation of tuples). This is pretty much necessitated by value types. See project Valhalla: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/07/Project-Valhalla

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