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by angus_gh 2245 days ago
As the article says, they examined lots of languages, not just Kotlin (it would be arbitrary to confine their research to JVM languages..)

>> While Java could not adopt the Swift approach wholesale because of existing language constraints, the Java approach took as much inspiration from the good work that the Swift community did as we could -- and left room to take more in the future.