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		7thaccount on Oct 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrot... I assume it became less popular when Java became more bearable.

n_plus_1_acc on Oct 1, 2024 | [–]

And kotlin came around with great IDE support, and with good features without the complexity of scals

lol768 on Oct 2, 2024 | | [–]

It's hard to understate how much better the Kotlin IDE support is vs Scala. In terms of reliability the Scala IntelliJ plugin really seemed to go downhill for me with Scala 3, which was a real shame.

paulddraper on Oct 1, 2024 | [–]

Kotlin made Java bearable.

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