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This http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/ http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/ is the best language for Android development.
by dodyg 13y ago
This http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/ http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/ is the best language for Android development.
- danieldk 13y agoI think you should motivate 'best' :). In general, Kotlin is a good candidate for the next Java. It removes a lot of boilerplate from Java and makes it more powerful (e.g. through extension methods), without becoming an enormous language such as Scala. It is a predictable language for anyone coming from Java. Kotlin's largest competitor is Java itself. Java 8 does provide a lot of the advantages that Kotlin had (e.g. closures).
- dodyg 13y agoJava 8 unfortunately does not have closures http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17204279/does-java-8-support-closures http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17204279/does-java-8-supp...
- danieldk 13y agoBy that standard Haskell doesn't have closures either. A closure is a function that uses free variables in its definition. And Java 8 closures fulfil that definition.