Bug#892842: RFP: kotlin -- Statically typed programming language

[Andrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:46:19 -0400 Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : kotlin
>   Version         : 1.2.30 
>   Upstream Author : JetBrains and open source contributors
> * URL             : https://kotlinlang.org/
> * License         : Apache 2
>   Programming Lang: Kotlin
>   Description     : Statically typed programming language for modern multiplatform applications
> 
> Extract from Wikipedia:
> 
> Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the
> Java virtual machine and also can be compiled to JavaScript source
> code or use the LLVM compiler infrastructure.  While the syntax is not
> compatible with Java, Kotlin is designed to interoperate with Java
> code and is reliant on Java code from the existing Java Class Library,
> such as the collections framework. Kotlin uses aggressive type
> inference to determine the type of values and expressions for which
> type has been left unstated. This reduces language verbosity relative
> to Java, which demands often entirely redundant type specifications.

Saif Abdul Cassim worked on this as part of his GSoC project. The status
can be seen here:

https://salsa.debian.org/snippets/115


-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej