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0 pointsjeremyjh6y ago0 comments

That's funny you say that - I've been following Kotlin a long time and lately have been getting interested in it again; somehow my thoughts keep leading there.

If anything holds me back its my experience with Scala. I used Scala for awhile (actually it was my introduction to functional programming) and I like the language but everything about it that seemed to make me unhappy was related to the tooling and JVM ecosystem in general. I should give Kotlin a real chance on a small project though as I haven't done that yet, I've just read the language guides.

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blandflakes6y ago· 1 in thread

Though I prefer Scala the language, Kotlin is really nice and has pretty straightforward tooling (seriously why is sbt what I'm stuck with), as well as really awesome (unsurprisingly) Intellij support.

sanderjd6y ago

I may prefer Scala in theory but it seems to me that Kotlin would work better in practice. And my thinking has shifted to where I've started preferring languages that I prefer in practice in theory too.

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