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posted by on Thursday May 18 2017, @10:18AM   Printer-friendly
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Today, at the Google I/O keynote, the Android team announced first-class support for Kotlin.

[...] Starting now, Android Studio 3.0 ships with Kotlin out of the box [...]

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[Ed. Note: For the unaware: Kotlin.]


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by BenJeremy on Thursday May 18 2017, @01:17PM

    by BenJeremy (6392) on Thursday May 18 2017, @01:17PM (#511670)

    ...b-b-b-b-but Kotlin is DESIGNED to be better than Java! They removed the semicolons! It's got features that do what other languages do, only better, because the semantics are completely different!

    Ugh. Kotlin looks like Python and Javascript had baby, even after they had attempted to abort it and the mother spend the entire term drunk and stoned.

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