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We are a scala shop as well, but more and more things are being built in Kotlin. I love scala but the lack of a future is downhearting.
by joneholland 7y ago
We are a scala shop as well, but more and more things are being built in Kotlin. I love scala but the lack of a future is downhearting.
- mruts 7y agoI used to work at a Scala shop and to me, the future looks great. 2.13 is nice, and 3.0 should be very nice. The language is a joy to work with and insanely powerful. I wouldn’t say there’s a better practical language out there (OCaml could be in the future though).
- solidsnack9000 7y agoWhat kinds of things are you guys doing in Kotlin? Anything server-side?
- threeseed 7y agoNot sure how anyone can say Scala has no future when Scala 3 is around the corner: https://medium.com/@sinisalouc/whats-new-in-scala-3-28d9c11eec30 https://medium.com/@sinisalouc/whats-new-in-scala-3-28d9c11e...
- StreamBright 7y agoI am not that much interested in what versioning scheme a language used and very curious about what is new in Scala that makes it a more attractive platform tomorrow than it is today. I just read that post and so far there is nothing really that interesting. Maybe it is just me.
- pjmlp 7y agoI don't see a future with Kotlin either. Android has turned into Kotlin's platform. Outside Android I predict Kotlin will be feeling like Scala is nowadays. Too much dependent on JetBrains tooling, leaving other Java tools as 2nd class, trying to spread too wide with Kotlin/Native having specific memory semantics, sequences and co-routines are their own thing, distinct from JVM ones.