This sounds like a criticism of Scala, whose creator, Martin Odersky, is currently a professor.

Alonso Del Arte

Jul 28, 2019·1 min read

This sounds like a criticism of Scala, whose creator, Martin Odersky, is currently a professor. In which case we’d be discounting his work on the Java 1.3 compiler and Java generics.

Alonso Del Arte

is a composer and photographer from Detroit, Michigan. He has been working on a Java program to display certain mathematical diagrams.

Kotlin comes from industry, not academia. It solves problems faced by working programmers today. As an example, the type system helps you avoid null pointer exceptions. Research languages tend to …

Why Kotlin is my next programming language

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