Comment on What is your favorite programming language?

• 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

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  • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, you still usually have to use Gradle, so not all the suck.

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    • swordsmanluke@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fair.

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• dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s pretty good. I’m trying to use it more in my personal projects.

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• 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.

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