| ▲ | Macha 4 hours ago | |
> and has poor IDE support outside that vendor's IDE Ironically, the IntelliJ support for Kotlin is also kind of weak. --- For the main point, Kotlin feels like something that would be anathema to a large group of Go devs who favor a small language. It's precisely the limits that viewpoint imposes that has meant Go is not my favorite language, but its clear that group is a big driver of Go's userbase. | ||
| ▲ | zmmmmm 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> favor a small language Yes exactly - somehow internally it grates against my instinct that simpler is always better to have a bolt-on language that layers all its own classes and APIs on top of a host language. I feel like that just can't be better in the long run and it if it is better now it can only be a temporary state of affairs. But then, I also like Groovy which is kind of the ultimate version of a bolt on language, so maybe I am just ex post facto rationalising my internal preferences. | ||