Cross-Language Mod Development
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I'm looking into it. Looks nice, I especially appreciate the fact that they made an Eclipse plugin as well. Looks very similar to Groovy.
Meh. Not really interested. Doesn't really seem compatible according to my testing. From what I've concluded, doesn't really seem compatible with existing Java code. Doesn't look like it'll be easy for the end user to use these mods anyway. The language in general is not really functional (especially the Eclipse plugin), but I guess I have to give them a break since it's extremely new. Perhaps I'll wait for the language to stabilize and then try.
Well, from what I understand, it doesn't compile directly into bytecode, from what I understand it reads code off of the .kt files and creates different classes based on them in a global kotlin_bin folder. There are different classes for packages, because the language does not strictly require functions to be inside classes. In fact, it hasn't worked when I put the main function inside a class. Compiling this into a jar would be a mess, the user would have to install Kotlin and set some paths etc. Kotlin in general isn't a language that I believe would be useful when Scala and Groovy exist.
First of all, your tests are wrong. Kotlin works with all java APIs, and all java code.
And secondly, I've heard that they're first stable 1.0 release is supposed to be at the end of this year.
Sources: Kotlin Docs, Why Kotlin is my Next Programming Language by Mike Hearn
My tests WERE (completely) wrong. I don't know what I was doing wrong however (might have been because i named my file with an uppercase letter, but that sounds absurd).
It DOES compile into bytecode (like this, yet the jar looks like this).
I was wrong about installing Kotlin and setting some paths in order to make it work, it looks like it has embeddable jars. Guessing you need both the kotlin-runtime and the kotlin-reflect jars, though.
I did read the docs before, didn't understand them 100%.
Looks like you're interested in the language, I'll make sure to keep that in mind
It DOES compile into bytecode (like this, yet the jar looks like this).
I was wrong about installing Kotlin and setting some paths in order to make it work, it looks like it has embeddable jars. Guessing you need both the kotlin-runtime and the kotlin-reflect jars, though.
I did read the docs before, didn't understand them 100%.
Looks like you're interested in the language, I'll make sure to keep that in mind
Well afaik the constructor really is protected. You have to subclass Block to use it.
is it ok to credit you in the OP
of my 1 and a half years of modding minecraft how did i not know this