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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/11/2017 7:24 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.
> 

And after just a short glance at the reference manual it has me
rolling on the floor.

Potential for strange and hard to locate errors - see colon.
Functions that return no value - I thought void was added to C for a reason?

Haven't yet come to the part that explains just why we needed another
language.

bill