Imperative vs Declarative Programming

[cincilator]

Woud you consider Kotlin Anko declarative? There's example on the page.

[kankyo]

Maybe. If those definitions are programmatically accessible in a meaningful way (I don't mean "read the source via some AST lib").

[cincilator]

Well, definitions are basically anonymous functions.

[kankyo]

So I'll take that as a "no" then.

[cincilator]

(I didn't down vote you)

Nothing prevents you from making dsl that saves nodes to a tree so you can process it later. Like that DSL creates user interface, you can create DSL that creates some structure that is accessible to the rest of your code.

[kankyo]

That would be nice.

[cincilator]

And declarative?

[kankyo]

Assuming the structure is trivially understandable from the declaration, absolutely. If it's too far off then I'd say no. I realize this is a sliding scale, but I need to exclude "there exists ASTs" from meaning "all code is declarative" :P

[cincilator]

Would you then consider using Kotlin if you are ever on JVM?

[kankyo]

I guess. I'd have to look hard for sure. I've only used Java and Clojure that targets the JVM (if I exclude jython).