What, you may ask, is Kotlin? Well:
Kotlin, one of the newer
alternatives to Java that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has reached its
second milestone and can now run on Android. The open source language is being
developed by JetBrains, developers of the IntelliJ IDEA IDE. Kotlin offers the
ability not only to compile to Java byte code but also to JavaScript. Announced
in July 2011 and open sourced in February, Kotlin is working past a set of
milestone targets to become a production ready language. I will not
quote more in case I exceed the fair use provisions of copyright law, but you
can read the article here.Interestingly, it seems to compile to Java bytecode on
JVM, but the completely unrelated Javascript on Android, not Dalvik. I am
surprised, as the functionality of Javascript is not all that great compared to
Java. I hope that Larry, and Bungle, Schyster and Fraud, are not going to be
making a fuss about this, as it must be using some of the Java APIs. Of course,
they are not copyrightable unless Oracle win the appeal, but the people behind
Kotlin, just skilled programmers, not megacorporations, are a very soft target
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