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It looks like there's been a very conscious effort to strike a midpoint between Java's familiar clunkiness and Scala's hipster experimental side. I think that'
by grabcocque 9y ago
It looks like there's been a very conscious effort to strike a midpoint between Java's familiar clunkiness and Scala's hipster experimental side.
I think that's a good thing, you end up with a language that feels pragmatic and powerfully practical.
- mejari 9y agoI've been told that a big selling point for Kotlin is that it was developed from actual usage and production rather than some of the more academic languages solving abstract (although still interesting) problems that day-to-day developers may not care much about.
- piaste 9y agoThe Henry Ford quote about faster horses comes to mind.
- romanovcode 9y agoYou're trying to tell us that Scala is something better and we are just too stupid to understand it's power/beauty/importance?
- hocuspocus 9y agoScala is undeniably more powerful overall (beauty and importance are subjective). It's also used by companies like Verizon, SAP, IBM, Walmart ... not exactly hipster research labs.
- jfim 9y agoWhich is funny, because Scala is a pragmatic mix that's halfway between more "pure" functional languages and Java. Guess the sweet spot is a quarter of the way there, not halfway. :)