Not strictly the same. Groovy was there before any company sponsorship. We could have lived without a foundation. Kotlin (as Ceylon or Swift) was invented under company sponsorship and fully developed under this sponsorship. This is very different.
2015-05-21 16:44 GMT+02:00 Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]>: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> > wrote: > >... It is worth remembering that whilst Kotlin is a FOSS project, it is > > being developed by JetBrains for writing the JetBrains products... > > Remind me of another language that was company-sponsored...those > things tend to come and go, it's good for such things to be owned by > neutral foundations ;-) > > -Bertrand >
