[Info-vax] Better languages than BASIC

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/11/2024 5:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:30:07 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:
>> If you want to write business applications, then either Java or a subset
>> of C++. C++ subset to be chosen based on programmer skillsets and the
>> problem to be solved.
> 
> Kotlin is an open-source alternative to Java that does not have Oracle’s
> rapacious fingers all over it. Google has been adopting it for Android
> development, for example.

Both Kotlin and the common implementation of Java are open source.

Kotlin is Kotlin project and JetBrains. Java is JCP and Oracle.

No big difference.

The big difference is that Kotlin started without the backwards
compatibility requirements of Java, which enabled them to do a lot
of things better.

As I like to word it: Kotlin is how Java would look like, if
Java had been designed 20 years later than it was.

Arne

PS: And Kotlin does run on VMS !!!!