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Kotlin 1.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the nice-steaming-cup-of-kotlin dept.

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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  1. Re:Java, utter bloat to sink your boat by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 1, Troll

    The best XML IDE on the planet is written in Java.

    (And, no, I don't work for them; I've just been using their product on a daily basis for nearly ten years.)

    That's kind of like saying "The best dog poop comes from $WHO_GIVES_A_SHIT." :-) xml was a big mistake we will always be paying for.

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    "Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.