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How does Kotlin compare to Groovy for Android development? Are they similar beasts when used for Android development, as in they both need to import their runti

• masklinn 12y ago
  The article touches upon that: Kotlin has a runtime you need to import, but it's significantly lighter-weight than Groovy's or Scala's, and the method-count overhead is relatively low (half that of Guava without proguard). Looking at the relevant jars, groovy 2.3.6 is 4.3MB[0] while Kotlin 0.8.679 is 353KB[1] (there's also a 503KB kotlin-stdlib, not sure what the comparison should be to but it compares very favorably even including both) For other references, Scala 2.11.2 is 5.3MB and Clojure 1.6.0 is 3.5MB[3] [0] http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.codehaus.groovy/groovy/2.3.6 http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.codehaus.groovy/groovy... [1] http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jetbrains.kotlin/kotlin-runtime/0.8.679 http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jetbrains.kotlin/kotli... [2] http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.scala-lang/scala-library/2.11.2 http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.scala-lang/scala-libra... [3] http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.clojure/clojure/1.6.0 http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.clojure/clojure/1.6.0