Hah, I've just got C++ on the brain this week! It does optimize for it :) Heaven forbid I stick to a language for two consecutive posts.
I actually didn't know that about JS, way to go Safari. Thanks for pointing that out!
Kotlin has actually been high on my "try-next" list for a while. I had a great time with Clojure, that's one heck of a runtime to be driving, but eventually felt it not practical for what I was working on and Kotlin looks like a great JVM addition a little closer to the mainstream. I'm surprised to hear that there's such a disparity, I thought the langauge was intended to be more functional forward. Do you know if it's a development priority or are most using Kotlin in a more Java-esque style?
Do you know if it's a development priority or are most using Kotlin in a more Java-esque style?
From my experience of it Kotlin is trying to be a less awful Java with excellent interop. Some ideas from Groovy, some from Scala. It's got a good (and necessary) story to tell about nulls.
What it isn't is a language like Haskell or Scala, and I don't think it ever will be (or should be).
But it's definitely better than writing Java.
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Hah, I've just got C++ on the brain this week! It does optimize for it :) Heaven forbid I stick to a language for two consecutive posts.
I actually didn't know that about JS, way to go Safari. Thanks for pointing that out!
Kotlin has actually been high on my "try-next" list for a while. I had a great time with Clojure, that's one heck of a runtime to be driving, but eventually felt it not practical for what I was working on and Kotlin looks like a great JVM addition a little closer to the mainstream. I'm surprised to hear that there's such a disparity, I thought the langauge was intended to be more functional forward. Do you know if it's a development priority or are most using Kotlin in a more Java-esque style?
From my experience of it Kotlin is trying to be a less awful Java with excellent interop. Some ideas from Groovy, some from Scala. It's got a good (and necessary) story to tell about nulls.
What it isn't is a language like Haskell or Scala, and I don't think it ever will be (or should be).
But it's definitely better than writing Java.