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I've been doing mostly Java work in my career and I'm using more JS these days on the side. I'm envious of the rest, spread, and deconstruction functionality in
by Yhippa 7y ago
I've been doing mostly Java work in my career and I'm using more JS these days on the side. I'm envious of the rest, spread, and deconstruction functionality in ES6. Really, really, envious.
- smt88 7y agoWhat would stop you from switching to Kotlin, which has those features and many more?
- winrid 7y agoI was in a Java shop at one point where leadership said Kotlin would be too hard for the engineers to learn (they were all mostly fairly junior).
- smt88 7y agoSyntax is not that different from Java. Someone who knows Java could be productive in 1-2 days. But it sounds like you agree that your leadership in that scenario was not rational.
- winrid 7y agoI'm not sure, I never tried Kotlin. I like the look of it but I know Java pretty well so it's been hard to not just use that for my personal stuff :p
- Yhippa 7y agoI would be the only one on my team who would be using Kotlin. I didn't know that Kotlin had that though.