On: The Programming Language Conundrum

[noir_lord]

Where would you rank a language like Kotlin in the JVM community or F# in the .Net?.

Both allow the massive freedom of something like a Lisp but you get to leverage the massive existing codebases in both environments.

Reason I ask is because I'm just starting to learn Kotlin (or will when the book turns up from Amazon) and I'm curious.

[RhodesianHunter → noir_lord]

Are you comfortable in Java? If so you won't need any book just the documentation and stack overflow will give you all you need.

[noir_lord → RhodesianHunter]

Reasonably comfortable in Java though not used it much for the last few years, much more comfortable in C#.

I decided to go the book route because I've found that when learning a new language the book route works better for me since it gives a structured walkthrough of the language rather than a piecemeal one and it's more time efficient.

YMMV but for me you still can't beat a good programming language book.

[RhodesianHunter → noir_lord]

Gotcha. Books never worked for me for some reason, only by diving right in to building something can I learn.

Best of luck to you! I've never been more productive than I am with Kotlin.