[Info-vax] The Kotlin language, something for VMS as well?

[Dirk Munk]

I read an interesting story about Kotlin, a kind of next generation Java.

It has many similarities with Java, but also some big improvements.

At the moment you can compile a source to a .jar file, and run it with a 
Java Virtual Machine, or compile it to Javascript.

However, in future (already in test phase), it will be possible to 
compile Kotlin programs with a LLVM compiler, and produce executables.

Here you can read more about it:

http://kotlinlang.org/
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/04/kotlinnative-tech-preview-kotlin-without-a-vm/