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Kotlin 1.0 Beta Candidate Is Out
- weird_observer 11y agoIs it just me, or does this (and the last few milestones) read like a burning car crash? The regressions around type parameter syntax and statics feel especially painful. If the language keeps getting more and more compromised with every milestone, why not stick with Java 9? This hardly qualifies as a "better Java" anymore...
- coldtea 11y agoProbably just you. Practically over purity.
- bbatha 11y agoIt can compile to android, which is stuck with a roughly equivalent environment to java 7.
- jaysonminard 11y agoI've tracked Kotlin for 2+ years, and it has gotten better. The restrictions are to make sure that decisions that are made after 1.0 are not breaking, but permit more options. It is called "careful planning." No thanks, Java 9 is klunky.
- nikolay 11y agoHonestly, what's wrong with Golo [0] or Ceylon [1]? [0] http://golo-lang.org/ http://golo-lang.org/ [1] http://ceylonlang.org/ http://ceylonlang.org/
- weird_observer 11y agoIt seems they have even less "adoption" than Kotlin. Golo is a simple dynamic, weakly-typed language that favours explicit over implicit. Not interested.
- nikolay 11y agoMay apply to Golo, but not to Ceylon, which truly is the better Java.
- on_and_off 11y agoI hope that this will allow the Android tools team to start seriously considering supporting it with Jack & Jill (if that's not already the case).
- mike_hearn 11y agoI quite like Kotlin. It was discussed here on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9946527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9946527 I've written a couple of articles about it https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-kotlin-is-my-next-programming-language-c25c001e26e3 https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-kotlin-is-my-next-program... and one on doing functional programming with it: https://medium.com/@octskyward/kotlin-fp-3bf63a17d64a https://medium.com/@octskyward/kotlin-fp-3bf63a17d64a