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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/11/2017 10:21 AM, Dirk Munk wrote:
> 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.

Kotlin is getting some traction in the Java community.

Many think that Scala even though promising is too complex
of a language and that Kotlin may be a better choice.

But I would expect most of its usage to be in the JVM world.

Browser (JS transpiling) and iOS (LLVM) is side shows.

But definitely an interesting language.

Arne