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by interestingemu 3387 days ago
Isn't pure Kotlin a much more unlikely scenario than pure Scala? Kotlin devs certainly take pride at every opportunity of how much Kotlin piggybacks on Java, cf. collections.

I think you can't have it both ways, having a worse abstraction for handling errors while claiming that it works better with Java code and then claiming that "pure Kotlin code" is where the more interesting case is.
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hota_mazi 3386 days ago
No, JetBrains is actually working on Kotlin Native [1].

[1] https://kotlinlang.slack.com/messages/kotlin-native/

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interestingemu 3386 days ago
Yes, exactly, which makes the claim even more baffling.

Sure, they can just reimplement all their Java dependencies, but if they have to implement e.g. collections anyway, they could just have designed a better API in the first place, instead of being stuck with Java collections on platforms that don't even run Java.

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