Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Fri Apr 12 23:18:31 UTC 2019


On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 18:05 +0000, JN via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
> This is an unfair comparison. Kotlin is piggybacking on JVM and 
> Java. First few versions of Kotlin were basically Java with 
> Project Lombok annotations added as language features rather than 
> awkward compilation stage hack. Only later did it start to emerge 
> as a new language with its own paradigms.

Please do not forget that a large number of features of Kotlin, even
early versions, stem from things that were started in Groovy.

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Russel.
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