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by lukedegruchy 4188 days ago
Java interop is way better with Ceylon 1.1. For example, use-site variance for generics was introduced and overloading bugs have been resolved. Ceylon 1.2 will have constructors (to support DI frameworks) and I believe Java EE integration. The Ceylon guys have been very careful about adding new features, considering the pros and cons. Strict Java interoperability would have resulted in a much less elegant language (ex public/protected/private instead of shared and allowing an escape hatch for null, as Swift and Kotlin have done).
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Yeah, having looked at Ceylon 1.2 I withdraw the "or Ceylon" part of what I'd said above. It's a lot nicer than when I'd looked at it before. I'd still go to Scala first, but that ain't bad.