On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:46:19 -0400 Antoine Beaupre <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : kotlin > Version : 1.2.30 > Upstream Author : JetBrains and open source contributors > * URL : https://kotlinlang.org/ > * License : Apache 2 > Programming Lang: Kotlin > Description : Statically typed programming language for modern > multiplatform applications > > Extract from Wikipedia: > > Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the > Java virtual machine and also can be compiled to JavaScript source > code or use the LLVM compiler infrastructure. While the syntax is not > compatible with Java, Kotlin is designed to interoperate with Java > code and is reliant on Java code from the existing Java Class Library, > such as the collections framework. Kotlin uses aggressive type > inference to determine the type of values and expressions for which > type has been left unstated. This reduces language verbosity relative > to Java, which demands often entirely redundant type specifications.
Saif Abdul Cassim worked on this as part of his GSoC project. The status can be seen here: https://salsa.debian.org/snippets/115 -- Cheers, Andrej
