How do you feel about Kotlin?
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dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Oddly enough Java. If you weren’t brainwashed to write the “enterprise Java”, it’s surprisingly succinct. More so than Go, whose forced “simplicity” ends up making it more verbose.
DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev 1 year ago
swordsmanluke@programming.dev 1 year ago
I fucking love Kotlin.
Access to the massive Java ecosystem, and takes away 99% of the boilerplate that everybody loves to hate. AND introduces Optional types to make Null-management better. AND smart, type-aware hinting in the editor so that if you’ve validated once that x is not null, you won’t get warnings downstream - unless your variable could be altered by another thread, which is an important thing to know.
Kotlin is Java with all the suck taken out.
…And the Kotlin compiler is compatible with Java, so you can migrate one file at a time or just try it out in a subsection of your codebase…
It’s just… chef’s kiss
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well, you still usually have to use Gradle, so not all the suck.
swordsmanluke@programming.dev 1 year ago
Fair.
dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It’s pretty good. I’m trying to use it more in my personal projects.
asearer@stranger.social 1 year ago
@DeprecatedCompatV2 @dingleberry I mean…I’m not totally versed, I’m still learning but I don’t hate it.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Same here. Java has a great ecosystem of tools too.
Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve heard that the recent versions of Java are a lot more pleasant to work with. I’ll probably still stick to C# though.
dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It sort of had a renaissance since Java 8. It incorporated all the best features of other JVM languages.