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My takeaway from this is that Kotlin appeals to junior/inexperienced developers, cargo-culters, and JetBrains developers.
by bogwog 8y ago
My takeaway from this is that Kotlin appeals to junior/inexperienced developers, cargo-culters, and JetBrains developers.
- Larrikin 8y agoAfter using scala, it was hard to go back to Java. After learning Kotlin and reading others scala code I don't see myself using any other JVM language besides Kotlin unless I'm forced to. I never minded Javas verbosity because I liked the type safety, but after experiencing languages without it java just becomes annoying to right. Scala was great initially, but because they put every concept ever thought of into the language it becomes a mess because people pick and choose from all the esoteric options. Kotlin is a happy middle ground to me.
- eklavya 8y agoEasy/common things should be easy and hard/uncommon things should be possible. So it's scala for me :)
- pjmlp 8y agoAnd Android devs that would otherwise be stuck using Java 6. There is partial support for Java 7 and 8, but it is a matter how many Android versions one wants to target. Don't forget Java is not only the language, rather standard APIs, bytecodes and .class formats. Also it doesn't appear Android will ever move beyond Java 8.
- otachack 8y agoIt does but it also appeals to experienced devs. One person made a point how it allows Android devs to use a wider toolset than the current restricted Android JDK allows. Personally, I've used Java for Android dev for 2 years and Kotlin feels like a breath of fresh air, just like Obj-C to Swift transition.