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Kotlin didn't invent type inference, it's a feature from ML.
by speed_spread 1y ago
Kotlin didn't invent type inference, it's a feature from ML.
- raddan 1y agoAnd not only that, Java was like 40 years late to the party. ML had Hindley-Milner type inference back in 1978! I can only imagine how foreign ML must have felt compared to other languages at the time.
- flykespice 1y agoI never said Kotlin invented type inference, just that the syntax was straight adopted from kotlin
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- speed_spread 1y agoWhat syntax? val and var were used by Scala before Kotlin. Lombok also has val. Java just needed to pick a keyword.