There's too much competition in this space. We have java, which clearly put a stake in the ground and has a gigantinormous community.
There's scala, who was here early enough and has enough 'different' about it that its become a smaller sattelite sun of the java platform, sucking away some of the more 'willing to try out new stuff' people of the java community and also some from elsewhere. But the clustermess that's Kotlin+Ceylon+Fantom+a few other wannabees is just annoying. I think at least one of those 3+ languages has a very good thing going, probably all of them, but now not one of those is going to get the critical mass necessary to truly become a living, breathing sun of its own. That's a real shame, I think. I have no idea how to fix it, either. For what its worth I think I might want to give Kotlin the benefit of the doubt, if only because they have a different outlook vs. everything else on the JVM (and the correct outlook, that is: Tools first. Nobody programs in notepad, don't develop a new language as if people do). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/FKA54UeIOUYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
