[dart-misc] Dart and Kotlin

[Jan Mostert]

I'm busy reading through the Kotlin docs and Kotlin feels very familiar to
Dart.
Was any part of Dart inspired by Kotlin or is the direction Kotlin and Dart
are moving just the general direction all modern languages are moving?

['Bob Nystrom' via Dart Misc]

Post by Jan Mostert
Was any part of Dart inspired by Kotlin or is the direction Kotlin and
Dart are moving just the general direction all modern languages are moving?

I think most of the language features of Dart and Kotlin were figured out
before either was publicly released, so there wasn't much chance to learn
from each other. Since then, I'm not aware of cases where the Dart language
team took ideas from Kotlin, though some stuff like safe navigation
operators were generally in the air at the time.

Most of it's probably just the nature of the problem. If you're trying to
design a widely-used, easy-to-learn application language suitable for
running on a VM that JITs, you'll likely end up with classes, single
disapatch, curly braces, C syntax, etc.

Dart, Kotlin, Ceylon, Xtend, Groovy, Boo, Haxe, etc. are all pretty similar
in that regard.

Cheers!

– bob

[Jan Mostert]

Thanks Bob!

Post by 'Bob Nystrom' via Dart Misc

Post by Jan Mostert
Was any part of Dart inspired by Kotlin or is the direction Kotlin and
Dart are moving just the general direction all modern languages are moving?

I think most of the language features of Dart and Kotlin were figured out
before either was publicly released, so there wasn't much chance to learn
from each other. Since then, I'm not aware of cases where the Dart language
team took ideas from Kotlin, though some stuff like safe navigation
operators were generally in the air at the time.
Most of it's probably just the nature of the problem. If you're trying to
design a widely-used, easy-to-learn application language suitable for
running on a VM that JITs, you'll likely end up with classes, single
disapatch, curly braces, C syntax, etc.
Dart, Kotlin, Ceylon, Xtend, Groovy, Boo, Haxe, etc. are all pretty
similar in that regard.
Cheers!
– bob
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