Maybe a strange question, but does anyone know if ...
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Johan Vergeer
12/22/2018, 1:11 PMMaybe a strange question, but does anyone know if JetBrains is working on making Kotlin compatible with C#
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Shawn
12/22/2018, 1:13 PMMy first thought is, probably not, followed up by, do you mind expanding on what you mean by “compatible with C#”
Shawn
12/22/2018, 1:13 PMlike, a CLR backend?
Shawn
12/22/2018, 1:14 PMOr something like paste -> convert to Kotlin support?
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Johan Vergeer
12/22/2018, 1:19 PMWhat I mean is basically the same compatibility as Kotlin has with Java. But paste -> convert to Kotlin support would be nice to start with 😏
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Shawn
12/22/2018, 1:36 PMI seriously doubt Kotlin/C# interop will ever be a fully-developed Kotlin feature. The use case is not common afaict, and Kotlin/Java interop relies heavily on the fact that you still have all of Java to call upon from Kotlin on the JVM
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Johan Vergeer
12/22/2018, 1:41 PMAllright, thanks
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agrosner
12/22/2018, 8:59 PMAlso C# is a pretty solid language. Don't see a need to use anything but that on the supported platforms
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Czar
12/22/2018, 10:45 PMIn fact JB devs have stated many times that parts of Kotlin were heavily inspired by C#
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Johan Vergeer
12/23/2018, 1:10 PM@agrosner I agree. But after having the privilege to work with both C# and Kotlin, I do have a preference for Kotlin
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groostav
12/23/2018, 7:14 PM@Johan Vergeer agreed, I'm working with a C# plugin that communicates with our main jvm product via GRPC. Getting back into .net for a while after a long haidus, the language has moved forward, but not near as far as I would've liked. C# has remained entirely too stateful. Even for an imperitive programming, some of the expression wrappers in kotlin are really nice.
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Alexey Belkov [JB]
12/24/2018, 3:36 PMCurrently we're not working on this.