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I haven't used Kotlin, but glancing over their comparison page the one that jumped out to me was that it (almost) eliminates the possibility of null pointer exc
by torinmr 9y ago
I haven't used Kotlin, but glancing over their comparison page the one that jumped out to me was that it (almost) eliminates the possibility of null pointer exceptions: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html
- thatswrong0 9y agoThis is my litmus test to determine whether a modern language is not terrible. Why wouldn't you want to eliminate an entire class of errors? Unfortunately, my day to day language at work is Go.
- tathougies 9y agoThis is like an entry-level expectation for a modern language. Hardly something to write home about in this day and age.
- fixermark 9y agoIt is when you bring it first-party to a platform the size of Java. The userbase of Objective-C was much smaller before OSX brought Cocoa to the Mac ecosystem.