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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/12/2017 2:16 PM, Dirk Munk wrote:
> Dirk Munk wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 7/12/2017 8:43 AM, Dirk Munk wrote:
>>>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> Haven't yet come to the part that explains just why we needed another
>>>>> language.
>>>>
>>>> Well, there are about 10,000 computer languages around. I suppose 
>>>> 99,9% will be script languages. Why we need them? I don't know, a 
>>>> few dozen should be enough I think.
>>>
>>> Well, while I don't agree that there are that many, I do agree with
>>> the sentiment.  I know several dozen myself but haven't used more
>>> than a half dozen in years.
>>
>> According to this website:
>>
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20110220044217/http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/
>>
>> there are 8512 languages.
>>
>> Still a trifle much.
> 
> Sorry, we now are at 8945 languages, see this new link:
> 
> http://hopl.info/

There are a lot of languages.

But few of them has any traction at all.

Kotlin is still very new and it is in no way guaranteed
that it will become a success.

But it has some traction that makes it a lot mere serious
language than 99% of those almost 10000 languages.

It is backed by JetBrains, which is a very serious
software development tools company.

Spring framework is supporting from version 5.

Google is supporting it for Android development.

That automatically makes it a serious language in
the Java community.

Arne