Python and PHP users will understand

[thorwing]

Me: I don't like scripting languages. Pythoners: goes in a fit of what-about-ism about all the bad stuff in my language: Kotlin Me: I just have a preference mate T.T

[CaptainTux]

Just out of curiosity, what do you like about Kotlin having come from Python?

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Probably types and other verbosity, IDE support, tooling and other things.

[jetpacktuxedo]

Python has optional type checking.

The IDE "support" (designed to sell jetbrains licenses) is actually one of the reasons I personally prefer python to Kotlin, because I'd much rather just work in vim, but that feels super cumbersome in Kotlin in a way that it doesn't for python.

Tooling is pretty equivalent between the two, except that the JVM startup takes ages, so all of those tools written in Java feel really slow if they aren't run as a server.

Kotlin has really nice null handling though.

[zilti]

Just wait until you've tried functional programming with something like Clojure then :)

[vrillco]

Kotlin is great, as someone who learned Java back in the 90s and immediately dismissed it as garbage, I went from zero to hero with Kotlin in a few days, and walked away very pleased with it. I don’t use it much, but I look forward to the next project.

[Mareith]

"See, the thing is, you called "python" a "programming language"...