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My biggest hope for Google IO '14 is the announcement of Kotlin as the Android language. Yes, you can already use Kotlin for Android actually but it's not well-
by hamidpalo 13y ago
My biggest hope for Google IO '14 is the announcement of Kotlin as the Android language. Yes, you can already use Kotlin for Android actually but it's not well-supported and the community is small.
The benefit for Google and developers would be clear -- no more Java and Oracle shenanigans. Google already has a solid relationship with JetBrains due to the fact that Android Studio is just IntelliJ CE. They could hammer out details about who owns it, what the future looks like, etc. The transition would be easy since Kotlin already plays well with Java.
JetBrains would have a massive win as well since it would drive sales of IntelliJ like no other.
- pjmlp 13y agoOr Dart. That is the only way I see Dart getting any real traction on the IT world at large. But I agree with you given the move to Android Studio, Kotlin would be a possible candidate as well.
- munificent 13y agoI spent a few minutes searching GitHub for the number of repos in different languages. The query I came up with is: https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A0..10000&type=Repositories&ref=advsearch&l=<lang> Where <lang> is replaced with the language you're curious about. Here's a few: Kotlin 200 Dart 2,836 Erlang 9,087 Groovy 11,515 Go 24,603 Scala 25,846 While we've still got lots of catching up to do, I think Dart is doing pretty well given its youth. (I would include TypeScript in the above but unfortunately the language detection for it is broken so it reports a bunch of Qt C++ projects as TypeScript).
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- pjmlp 13y agoWhat most companies around the world use has very little to do with Github top languages. I never get this trend to use Github to measure anything.
- vorg 13y agoFor comparison... Top 10 languages: JavaScript 648,839 Ruby 512,620 Java 464,330 Python 323,857 PHP 319,106 C 169,390 C++ 165,497 CSS 141,254 //not Turing complete, but oh well C# 111,748 Objective-C 107,682 JVM languages: Scala 25,854 Clojure 17,532 Groovy 11,520 //seems to be mostly picking up lone Gradle build scripts Kotlin 200 Ceylon 60 Also: Typescript 3,042 //search function only intermittently fails Dart 2,888 Big business language: Cobol 50
- vorg 13y ago> I would include TypeScript in the above but unfortunately the language detection for it is broken The broke seems to be intermittent only. The Groovy results seem to be permanently broken though - most of its results are multi-language projects where Groovy is used by a single Gradle build script.
- effn 13y agoKotlin would preserve Google's investment in Java in a way Dart wouldn't.
- hamidpalo 13y agoDart requires a major redo of everything. Kotlin is a nice evolution with an easy and soft transition.