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		hhariri on Sept 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kotlin, the Swift of Android One reason would be if you prefer static typing.

hellrich on Sept 2, 2014 [–]

In recent Groovy versions you can have type checking or even static compilation by annotating your code.

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