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Reading Why you should totally switch to Kotlin

I don't believe in titles like Why you should totally switch to Kotlin or Ten Reasons Why I Don't Like Golang (subtitle: why “I wouldn’t use it for a new project”), but being curious about languages, I always like to read this kind of articles, and eventually criticise them — though I neither advocate for nor oppose to any language in particular.

So…

Exceptions to control the flow

Using exceptions to control the flow of your program is an anti-pattern. Don't take too seriously whoever believes in exceptions as an indispensable feature of a language. Better no exception than misused exceptions!

Java 8, functional style and efficiency

Java 8, released in 2014, introduced lambdas and the possibility to write code in a functional style through streams of elements. C++11 standard was published in 2011, and it introduced lambdas too, which altogether with old and new functions in algorithm (e.g. accumulate(), for_each(), count(), transform()) allow for a functional style in C++.

Don't Go, let's Go

My few encounters with Go were pleasant and I stick to the idea that it is a good language.

Java threads and exceptions

Talking about tasks and exceptions in Ada, what about Java?

Sather's iterators

Sather's way for loops is interesting: you have iterators which yield giving the control back to the caller, very much like coroutines do.

Sather reloaded

Once upon a time, there was Sather… I've briefly said it exists in a previous old article, Languages, OOP, Sather et al..

Eiffel

The first language which put emphasis on design by contract was Eiffel. It seems that the term is born with/for it.

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