On: Frege: A Haskell-Like Language for the JVM

[sanderjd]

I don't see Kotlin as a "wow" language, I see it as a "this is sort of boring but pretty nice" language like Java and Go. Maybe Ceylon is similar, I dunno. It just strikes me that Go could use a stronger competitor than Java that runs on the JVM, but doesn't seem overly fancy (Scala, Clojure) or too dynamic (Groovy, JRuby, Clojure). Kotlin is the closest I've seen to that.

[pron → sanderjd]

I completely agree. Kotlin is designed to be a modern Java, i.e. a blue-collar language that only adopts tried-and-true ideas.