Why does it have to be a battle? I'd like to believe that there will be an
ecosystem consisting of a few popular jvm languages living in harmony.

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 11:27 +0000, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
> > These new languages will probably succeed in making local type inference
> the standard, like C# and Scala before them.
> >
> > The null-safety is always interesting, how does that interact with Java
> code? Do we assume every Java method might return null?
> >
> > It doesn't sound complete enough to be worth a download yet.
>
> Downloaded, installed, tried "hello world", failed to be able to execute
> any compiled code -- online documentation is inconsistent with the
> command lines as issued.  Will wait for 0.2.
>
> The ensuing battle between Java 8, Kotlin, Ceylon and Scala is going to
> be interesting to spectate.
>
> --
> Russel.
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