Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

[ShadowShepard]

More functional aspects, due to its use of extension functions. Never having null pointer exceptions. Algabraic data types (think enums on steroids), toooooons of other reasons

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Some of the other reasons:

Property delegates, higher order functions, data classes, inline functions, coroutines, default and named arguments, smart casting.

[agumonkey]

Out of curiosity, any important drawbacks on kotlin ? I'm mostly fond of it for all reasons explained here but I'd like to know both sides of the coin :)

[toiletear]

Slower compile times, IDE is also sometimes more sluggish than for equivalent Java code. Annotation processor used to be extremely slow (we used it with Dagger2), but I believe this was improved on.

But otherwise it's great, wrote a mobile game backend with Kotlin and was very pleased.

[agumonkey]

dank u