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Kotlin is my new love. Best collections library of any language I've used, great type system, coroutines are amazing, and all of it integrates perfectly with 25
by pkulak 8y ago
Kotlin is my new love. Best collections library of any language I've used, great type system, coroutines are amazing, and all of it integrates perfectly with 25 years of rock-solid Java libraries.
- kodablah 8y agoWhile the collections library may be better than others, it has a great many warts, many of which aren't discoverable until you've used it a long time. Some of these warts are a result of JVM interop requirements. It's not just the collections library, while the language is great and better than others, there are mounds of bugs and poor design decisions.
- buckysock 8y agoWhat do you use Coroutines in a static language like Java, for ?
- pkulak 8y agoEverywhere I used to use CompleteableFutures, except without ending up with completely unmaintainable code. https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/coroutines-guide.md https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/cor...
- buckysock 8y agoVery interesting, thanks!