Re:“Swift will be open source later this year”
by V-2 on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:45PM
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Kotlin is positively awesome, but when I tried it (admittedly last year) it didn't seem ready for production yet. It worked all well as long as stuff was kept simple, then I used Realm.io, wrote some unit tests and got all sorts of NoClassDefFoundError exceptions, dexmaker errors etc. Long story short, I couldn't fix it. As I said, it's been a while. I hope things have been improving and continue to improve. The language itself is superb
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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year”
by jophde on Monday June 08, 2015 @08:36PM
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It's pretty damn closed to 1.0. They just released M12 which adds support for interop with Java libs that use annotation processing such as Dagger.
Re:“Swift will be open source later this year”
by brmunk on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @09:18AM
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With the just released support for annotation processing Kotlin is now working with e.g. Realm.
Re:“Swift will be open source later this year”
by ufmace on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @05:11PM
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I've just been playing with it some in the last couple of weeks. I get the impression that they're still iterating pretty rapidly on it - at least partly because the official practice repo uses trait all over the place, which they apparently deprecated and changed to interface.
I will say that it It looks very promising so far, and seems to have the best of C# and Ruby, assuming you're sticking with compile-time type checking, plus a few more tricks besides. I'm not that up on JVM languages though, so I'm not sure that it's definitively better than any of the other choices.