Kotlin 1.0 Released

Qbertino writes: Kotlin, one of the challengers to Java's VM, has been released in version 1. Kotlin is object-oriented, statically typed and comes with professional IDE support by Jetbrains — which is no big surprise, since it's the Jetbrains employees who developed the programming language that saw the light of day four years ago. Kotlin is already in real-world use and development will be moving into fleshing out the Kotlin feature set without breaking backwards compatibility. These features include planned support for JavaScript — which sounds interesting considering JS has gained quite some traction recently. Kotlin is FOSS and is released under the Apache license.

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How to get 30% of corporate Java users in one move

[Anonymous Coward]

Provide an actual working installer, instead of that Sun invented piece of misnamed, misplaced piece of camel dung instlaler. First you have the magicalliy renumbering component versions, then the "you have to formally sign a user agreement" to instlal it, then for RHEL and CentOS and Fedora and SuSE users you get misnamed "rpm.bin" piece of sticky doggy mess that violates the File System Hierarchy and whose RPM package name does not match the name of the RPM file.

There are reasons some of us gave up on using anything from Sun, and it's sad to see Oracle continued the same stupid practices. If these Java variant exert the slightest care in packaging, they can pick up a few clients right there.