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> I'm tired of the Kotlin hype (particularly with it unreleased, and so rarely used in production) You call it hype, I call it enthusiasm. But regardless of t
by incepted 11y ago
> I'm tired of the Kotlin hype (particularly with it unreleased, and so rarely used in production)
You call it hype, I call it enthusiasm.
But regardless of the names we use , what I find very interesting is that Kotlin is generating such positive feelings even though it's not even 1.0. I haven't seen this happen for languages in a while (probably "ever"). What's also striking is that most of what I read about Kotlin is positive, and again, languages hardly ever generate positive feelings so widely across the board.
- lmm 11y agoDo you not remember when Java itself came out? The positive feelings ring very false to me. Kotlin has announced a lot of features long before they were delivered, and taken a lot longer to deliver a working language than they originally claimed. It's the old "two types of languages" - most languages sound good when you talk about their features, it's only when you actually use them that the negatives become apparent. I don't know anyone who's actually used both Kotlin and Ceylon and prefers Kotlin, and Ceylon is actually more mature (1.2 released recently, IIRC). But since King only advertises features that are actually implemented and release dates he can actually make, there's a lot more hype for Kotlin.