Kotlin or Swift? (isn't a flame war, its about opinion)

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@dalewking

What multiple syntaxes? There is one syntax that is used for lambdas. There are anonymous functions that are like lambdas, but are only needed in the rare cases where you need to explicitly specify the return type

I believe he’s referring to (::fooFunction) vs. { it.fooFunction() }

@jstuyts

@DonWills: You seem to be looking for a language that Kotlin is not. Even better: You are the decision maker, so simply decide to not use it. In your case, nobody is forcing you to use Kotlin if you do not like it. There are tons of other languages to choose from. Follow Hacker News, new languages/dialects are announced regularly.

To be fair, he was just clarifying a comment he made (“Kotlin has more warts than Java,” to paraphrase) specifically because I asked him to. And I asked him to because as much as I love Kotlin, I don’t want to be one of those people who drink the Kool-aid. I want to hear concerns from people more critical than me, because they might be right. At the very least, I can evaluate whether those concerns are valid and relevant for me.