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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you... by hhariri on Saturday July 25, 2015 @05:02AM (#9947051)
Scala was our primary candidate, but there were issues back then, namely in terms of compiler performance and also tooling. Tooling isn't easy for Scala, and I believe compiler speed, Kotlin is already faster than Scala in terms. Also, we want to continue to provide support for JDK 6 thru 8.
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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you... by mahmoudimus on Saturday July 25, 2015 @04:42PM (#9948917)
There's still issues with Scala today.
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