[OT] Some neat ideas from the Kotlin language

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 19:33 +0000, Ice Create Man via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 23:33:45 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> > Just come across Kotlin today, and found some interesting ideas 
> > skimming through its tutorial:
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Both those issues predate both Kotlin and Swift. C# has had both 
> of them for as long as I've been coding in the language. Nothing 
> new here.

But lots of what Kotlin, and Ceylon, are doing are new… on the JVM. I
like new, I like progress and evolution. Just because an idea is not
objectively new, doesn't mean it isn't new and useful. Context and
application can be as refreshing as having a brand new idea. Just think
in programming languages today actors, dataflow, CSP are new, despite
being 50-ish, and 40-ish years old.
 
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Russel.
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