In a sense, yes, but (from the top of my head*):
1. Even in the statically compiled domain with some things missing
1. e.g. many AST-transformation annotations, such as
@InheritConstructors comes to mind, which we use all the time.
2. Or macros.
2. And also with a syntax (taken from Javascript) imho not well suited
for a strongly typed language (name : type = value, instead of the
much more readable type name = value as in all C-like languages).
Cheers,
mg
*Caveat: I only look at Kotlin from time to time, so some of what I say
may be outdated.
> @CompileStatic predecessor Groovy++ (which later afaik gave birth
to Kotlin).
I totally agree here. In a sense Kotlin is a statically-typed Groovy.
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