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I'll be the one to nickpick, but Scala never intended to be a nicer Java. It was and still is an academic exercise in compiler and language theory. Also, judgin
by ezst 11mo ago
I'll be the one to nickpick, but Scala never intended to be a nicer Java. It was and still is an academic exercise in compiler and language theory. Also, judging by Kotlin's decent strides, "little Syntex differences" get you a long way on a competent VM/Runtime/stdlib.
- morshu9001 11mo agoKotlin's important feature is the cooperative multitasking. Java code has been mangled all these years to work around not having that. I don't think many would justify the switch to Kotlin otherwise.
- ezst 11mo agoIt's probably an important feature now, but it's a recent one in this context.
- morshu9001 11mo agoOh true, I thought it was older