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by commentzorro 3887 days ago
Don't know Ceylon or Kotlin except superficial poking around the websites.

So, let me ask you, how is Ceylon better than Kotlin? I'd like to see a good write-up (separate blog post) that compares and contrasts the two. What are use cases where one language would be significantly better than the other?

(Edit) Wow! Did not expect such a dearth of samples (for both languages) on Rosetta Code.

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Ceylon

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Kotlin

and only one overlap:

http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/Ceylon/Kotlin/#

1 comments

Given that a strength of Kotlin is that you can dumb-port Java straight to it without even thinking about it, I'm not really surprised it doesn't have much presence on Rosetta Code. It's not the right audience.