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Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed “pragmatic” ...

Eclipse.org’s Xtend language is all about modernizing Java apps. At least that’s the view of Xtend advocates, who say that the statically typed language, which runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), ...

Scala, a statically typed language running atop the Java Virtual Machine, is emerging as a development option for building Google Android applications. While developers already are aware of Java and ...