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| <h1 id="introduction">Introduction</h1> |
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| <p>Xtend is a statically-typed programming language which translates to comprehensible Java source code. Syntactically and semantically Xtend has its roots in the Java programming language but improves on many aspects:</p> |
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| <li><strong>Type inference</strong> - you rarely need to write down type signatures anymore</li> |
| <li><strong>Full support for Java generics</strong> - including all conformance and conversion rules</li> |
| <li><strong>Translates to Java</strong> not bytecode - understand what is going on and use your code for platforms such as Android or GWT</li> |
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| <p>Unlike other JVM languages Xtend has <a href="201_types.html">zero interoperability issues</a> with Java: Everything you write interacts with Java exactly as expected. At the same time Xtend is much more concise, readable and expressive. Xtend’s small library is just a thin layer that provides useful utilities and extensions on top of the Java Development Kit (JDK).</p> |
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| <p>Of course, you can call Xtend methods from Java, too, in a completely transparent way. Furthermore, Xtend provides a modern Eclipse-based IDE closely integrated with the Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT), including features like call-hierarchies, rename refactoring, debugging and many more.</p> |
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