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I feel like you could about as well write an article about how Go or Scala or TypeScript is like Kotlin. They all have some cases where they look similar or hav
by chc 9y ago
I feel like you could about as well write an article about how Go or Scala or TypeScript is like Kotlin. They all have some cases where they look similar or have some similar constructs borrowed from other sightly-less-recent languages. It doesn't seem like a very interesting or deep similarity.
If you want to compare them, going over the differences would be a lot more illuminating.
- ranit 9y agoI don't know it for a fact, but this seems a response to Steve Yegge's catchy "Kotlin is better" (also on HN first page now).
- s_dev 9y ago>Kotlin came across as strangely familiar, though, and eventually I realized it's because it looks like Swift -- which I was slow to notice because my iOS app is in Objective C for irritating legacy reasons. And of course now I know that's backwards: Kotlin predates Swift by several years, so it's more accurate to say that Swift is like Kotlin. -Yegge
- krallja 9y agoIn fact, it's linked from the Yegge post.
- mastazi 9y agoOP here - Yes I posted the link after finding it in Yegge's post. I thought it was interesting to see examples of the two languages side by side.
- johnhattan 9y agoYeah, my first impression was "This is exactly like Haxe". They definitely went through some steps to make it familiar.