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hnxx | 9 years ago

Kotlin reminds me of coffescript to JavaScript.

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highwind|9 years ago

As far as I know, all CoffeeScript did was add bunch of syntactic sugar on top of JavaScript.

I believe Kotlin actually adds programming paradigm that's not in Java on top of terse syntax, i.e. real closure, operator overloading, pure object orientation, and more.

lmm|9 years ago

Java already has real closures and pure object orientation. Operator overloading is just sugar.

ungzd|9 years ago

And also may become obsolete after Java 8/9 (as Coffeescript after ES6/7). Problem is that noone in Java body shops ever touched Java 8, they're still migrating from Java 5 to Java 6.