Java was made to be easy, but leaks features even c++ has.

Type inference

Java: was is that.

C++: auto, easy

Java was a state of the art language in 1997. Now, it's a 1997 language in 2017...

..... Actually, scratch that, Java was never a state of the art language, it's design-by-committee bullshit from the start.

why exactly would you want to use type inference in a statically typed language?

also i suppose you havent been a java dev for long if you havent heard of generics

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@jaread boo hoo java is verbose and my ide surely doesnt autocomplete the code after 3 fucking keystrokes

@BindView ive been programming java for 4 years, its the opposite, im new to c++ actually

what the hell, how come you never used generics

@BindView @jaread 😛

@BindView i do....

but..THAT is type inference???

@BindView im ranting about type inference here, kotlin is a static language but use types only when required

@BindView Java doesn't have generics, it's just boxing with syntactic sugar which you can break at runtime.

@BindView No its casting dude

@jaread at this point im p sure you are trolling

@Liz3 @BindView thats not the kind i mean... java also some inference in lambdas

Features even C++ has? I actually thought C++ was the language with the most features

@Liz3 Kotlin is just a language that get compile down to java. Also I'm pretty sure you give it the type at the construction.
var v = myVar()
or
var v: myVar? = null

And because it's decalred, the smart IDE can give you good recommendations.

@Awlex kotlin does NOT compile to Java, its compiling to jvm bytecode not java

I'm sorry that I forgot to add the word bytecode😋