[yoshiokatsuneo]

derived from Swift is like Kotlin: https://github.com/Nilhcem/swift-is-like-kotlin

[mbel]

I guess that the next one will be: "Kotlin is like Rust", or perhaps there should be "Kotlin is like Go" first?

[qcz]

Why not do "Kotlin is like PHP" or "Kotlin is like Visual Basic 6" immediately?

[mbel]

"Kotlin is like Java" would be pretty funny.

[COil]

Could be fun.

[pjmlp]

You mean like Go is like Algol?

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/

[pavlov]

Maybe the generalized version is simply:

"All these new languages with C-derived syntax and automatic memory management are pretty much the same -- so pick the one that is most supported on your target platform, get to work, and don't worry about it."

I'm kind of expecting someone to do a "Meta-Kotlin" next: a language that has the common intersection of features from Swift, Kotlin, C# and TypeScript, and offers tidy code generation for any of these.

[mike_hearn]

Kotlin isn't much like Rust. A comparison to Go would be interesting, especially now Kotlin has coroutines.

[pjmlp]

> "Kotlin is like Go"

Curious how they would relate all the features Go lacks.

[bauerd]

If I squint my eyes hard enough TypeScript looks like a LISP

[avoidwork]

maybe because it's javascript, which is borrows from scheme, which is a lisp?

[melling]

let x = 1

const x = 1

val x = 1

var x = 2

It's unfortunate each language has a different keyword for constants and variables.