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As we have seen in most milestones, Kotlin is gradually moving closer and closer to Scala, because even they realize that "a slightly better Java" won't cut it
by justthistime_ 11y ago
As we have seen in most milestones, Kotlin is gradually moving closer and closer to Scala, because even they realize that "a slightly better Java" won't cut it in the mid-/long-term.
- incepted 11y agoI see it the other way around: Scala demonstrated that a C++-like beast with too many features is not what the community wants since Scala failed to gain any sizeable mind share. Kotlin is an attempt at taking the other road: building an incremental language over Java. We'll see in a couple of years if that experiment is a success.
- justthistime_ 11y agoI think the whole comparison with C++ just demonstrates the author's lack of research. People who think that – in the end of 2015 – everything we need is a slightly nicer Java show an scary lack of insight and vision.
- k_bx 11y ago> a slightly better Java I wouldn't call it "slightly better". It is much, much better. There aren't that much changes to your programming habits or architecture, but improvements which Kotlin brings are huge. Absence of nulls, type-inference, top-level functions. All this would make a huge difference, not "slight" one.
- justthistime_ 11y agoIf you consider these things huge, you never looked over the rim of Kotlin's tea cup. You would be surprised what's out there.