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Certainly Kotlin vs Java looks a lot like CoffeeScript vs JS. For one, CoffeeScript had great impact on JS, and still has a few advantages (along its disadvant
by xixixao 7y ago
Certainly Kotlin vs Java looks a lot like CoffeeScript vs JS.
For one, CoffeeScript had great impact on JS, and still has a few advantages (along its disadvantages). Perhaps Kotlin will play the same role.
But I'm doubtful Java can evolve as JS did. For one, the philosophy and speed of development of Java is very different, and kinda set in stone. But perhaps more importantly, types are part of Java, and they need to be backwards compatible. I think this will make it extremely hard to adopt some of the sane defaults from Kotlin.