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#57 Technology Trade Offs: Python & Kotlin (With Matt Anger)

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Kotlin and Java: A Comparison

The language design choices that they made I just feel really they kind of went 180 degrees from what Java did where they you know initially they were just going yeah let's just make all this stuff up we don't actually have to see if it works in the world. With Kotlin they said let's see what the other languages didYeah we'll just steal the best features that have shown themselves to be great and I just really like that approach, he says. "I think ultimately because I've seen some of the attempts that [Java] is dealing with this horrible backwards compatibility problem but things like the pattern matching in Java it's just like I think what that'll do is push more people to

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