Slant community chat on DiscoursePro Amazing IDE support
Since Kotlin is made by Jetbrains (the developers of IntelliJ IDEA) so it stands to reason that the IntelliJ support for Kotlin is also great.
Pro Java interoperability
Since it runs on the JVM, Kotlin is 100% interoperable with Java and can use existing Java frameworks and libraries.
Pro No runtime overhead
Because the standard library is pretty small and tight, it mostly consists of focused extensions of the Java standard library.
Know any negative aspects of this option?
Pro Corona
Corona is probably the main reason why Lua is good for Android development.
Pro LÖVE
LÖVE is another cross platform game framework. Really easy to use, and desktop to Android is almost drag and drop like.
Con Batteries not included
Lua is so small mainly due to many of the components not being included in the core package. A lot of people need the functionality provided by the Lua module management system LuaRocks and libraries such as Penlight.
Con Easy to make mistakes when declaring variables
When writing a function, if a programmer forgets to declare a variable, that variable will be declared at global scope. The code will seem to run fine at first, but if another function uses a variable with the same name, but fails to declare it, it will create subtle, incredibly difficult to find b...
Pro Simplicity as a pillar of culture.
Simplicity is one of the pillars on which Clojure is built. Clojure tries to solve many problems in software development as simply as possible. Instead of building complex interfaces, objects or factories, it uses immutability and simple data structures
Pro Few components of syntax
Lispness makes ClojureScript trivial to comprehend after an initial learning overhead
Con Confusing error messages
Clojure's error messages more often than not are very confusing. They usually involve stack traces that do not thoroughly explain where the error was caused or what caused it.
Pro Supports some functional features
C# is primarily object-oriented, but it also supports some features typically found in functional languages such as lambdas, delegates and anonymous classes. Methods can be treated like any other object, and the Linq query system operates on monads with lazy evaluation (though it hides this with a...
Pro Incredibly well-engineered language
Where other languages invoke the feeling of being a product of organic growth over time, C# just feels like an incredibly well-designed language where everything has its purpose and almost nothing is non-essential.
Con Complex syntax
Too many syntactic constructs to learn before it becomes usable.
Con Sandboxing has performance implications
C# relies on .NET functionality to run partially-trusted code. When loading code into a separate app domain, permissions can be specified. However, it results in performance loss due to slow cross-domain calls and can be undesireable in a game. Running code in the same domain can result in a securi...
Pro Huge language supports most everything
C++ is a large language with an even larger community and following. It has libraries for every kind of task that is possible to do with C++.
Con Module system is not great
C++ uses the #include mechanism provided by C. Which unfortunately is a poor way of accessing the API of a library. Some of the reasons why the module system is weak are: Compile time scalability: The compiler must preprocess every header included in a file, and every header included in those...
Pro Ruby-like syntactic conveniences
Lambdas are written like Smalltalk's blocks. If it's the last argument, it can go after the parentheses like Ruby's blocks. Parentheses on method calls are optional.
Pro Type inference
It uses Java's static type system, but you don't have to declare the type of everything all the time, since the Xtend compiler can usually figure it out. This also dramatically cuts down on Java's infamous verbosity.
Con Slower compilation
Unlike most JVM languages, Xtend compiles to Java rather than directly to JVM bytecode. So you have to compile everything four times for Android: from Xtend to Java, from Java to JVM bytecode (.class files), from .class to .dex bytecode, and then AOT compilation from .dex to native ARM upon instal...
Pro Freely mix Java and Ruby in a Ruboto project
Ruby is kind of slow, but you can rewrite the bottlenecks in Java for performance.
Con App startup takes a few seconds
This is a big deal on mobile.
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