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As Kotlin is more or less Java with some sugar thrown on top, yes. Even if you "learn Kotlin" on its own, you'll essentially have re-learned Java.
by norswap 10y ago
As Kotlin is more or less Java with some sugar thrown on top, yes. Even if you "learn Kotlin" on its own, you'll essentially have re-learned Java.
- favadi 10y agoThanks, so it is not the kind of language I can learn the basic for fun in a weekend.
- SNvD7vEJ 10y agoDepends on what you mean by "learning a lanuage". You can probably learn the syntax, and to build and run your application in a couple of days. Learning the "ecosystem" of Java I think is another matter. Installing the Eclipse-plugin which includes the Kotlin compiler, creating and running a "hello World" takes only a few minutes (I just did that).
- norswap 10y agoIt depends, what is your background? Java is a run-the-mill object oriented language. If you've used any OO language with dynamic dispatch, you're immediately set 90% of the way to fluency. The tricky part is the generic part of the type system, the part with the `? extends` and `? super` annotations.