Language Design: Annotations Obsolete Modifiers – Failed Attempts

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Kotlin Kotlin gave up on it , as they couldn’t figure out how to recognize annotation usages as early in the compiler pipeline as modifiers previously. This lead to the determination that modifiers (without the prefix @ ) had to stay, but annotations would not always be able to omit the prefix @ , leading to inconsistencies. Ceylon Ceylon tried the route in which everything is an annotation, but…

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