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I 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 si
by incepted 11y ago
I 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.