Re: Static typing question

On 02.01.24 08:59, Agile Developer wrote:
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>  >  @CompileStatic predecessor Groovy++ (which later afaik gave birth to Kotlin).
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> I totally agree here. In a sense Kotlin is a statically-typed Groovy.

In a sense yes. Though the focus is different. Groovy sees itself as a
multiparadigm language, that wants to be very similar to java and have a
maximum of integration.

This then implies:
* Groovy is always compiled (we have no interpreter)
* generated classes are very similar to what Java knows (an enum in
Groovy is the same as an enum in Java)
* support of most features Java offers (for example we added records
recently)
* the type system is very similar
* dynamic features often supported by non-dynamic structures,
non-dynamic structures can be used directly from Java

That was no goal of Kotlin and you see it in some constructs, requiring
sometime these @Jvm annotations and the trend to rewrite existing
libraries so they can be used more easily from Kotlin.

bye Jochen