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Don't know about Scala alternative, but the language I've found most enjoyable on the JVM is definitely Kotlin.
by codr7 1y ago
Don't know about Scala alternative, but the language I've found most enjoyable on the JVM is definitely Kotlin.
- hinkley 1y agoI wonder sometimes how much Kotlin contributed. It’s certainly a case that languages need to be championed by competent IDE writers otherwise they fail to scale. Because you can’t have 50 devs all using neovim - and only neovim - without making a huge gigantic mess. Large projects can sustain a few brilliant people working with one hand tied behind their back but not everyone.
- motbus3 1y agoI'm curious about Kotlin. What makes it great for you? I tried few times checking on it, but I failed to find something that motivated me to continue
- hinkley 1y agoI haven't used it much. I know a few people who have. But as I said above, I realized long ago that languages without IDEs by and large falter in the long term (that's why I'm currently concerned about Jetbrains needing a buggy plugin to do Elixir), so Jetbrains being behind it added a lot of gravitas. And after fighting with Larry Ellison for a bit, Android phones moved to Kotlin to get around the lawyers.