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by incepted 11y ago
Actually, most people who complain about Kotlin do so because they think Kotlin didn't borrow enough features from Scala. It's tough to satisfy everyone :-) The bottom line is that if you like Scala, you are probably not going to
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by incepted 11y ago
"it" is a magic value that was introduced in Groovy, so a lot of people are familiar with it. You got used to "this" being a magic value, "it" is a pretty easy concept to grasp. Besides, it's not any more
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by incepted 11y ago
> I'm tired of the Kotlin hype (particularly with it unreleased, and so rarely used in production) You call it hype, I call it enthusiasm. But regardless of the names we use , what I find very interesting is that Kotlin is generatin
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by incepted 11y ago
And even after that, it wouldn't be reasonable for any big company to adopt a language that's not at least at version 1.1 or 1.2. I don't think one can make any pronouncement about Kotlin's success or failures for severa
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by incepted 11y ago
To me, the benefit is what Kotlin has less than Scala. It's an incremental improvement over Java and it fixes exactly all the complaints I have over Java and nothing more. Also, its IDE support is just as good as Java. But the langua
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by incepted 11y ago
Scala was nice when it was the only alternative to Java but Kotlin has been slowly gaining some pretty solid momentum as a candidate for Java's replacement.
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by incepted 11y ago
Definitely. Having said that, it makes it easier to see that the schedule has already slipped by months, even though it was announced two years ago.
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by incepted 11y ago
Your comment is very reasonable but I've found that celebrity or wits or intelligence hardly correlates to interesting Twitter stream. Basically, most people who tweet are a waste of time to read. Even at 140 characters at a time. It&#
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by incepted 11y ago
I had missed that, thanks.
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by incepted 11y ago
What library is the user using? It doesn't look like anything I've seen so far and he doesn't say anything about the environment he's using to create his game, so it's not easy to follow.
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by incepted 11y ago
> The galaxy isn't traveling faster than c away from us, but space is being created in between. That's an intriguing way of phrasing, never thought of it this way. I'm aware that space is expanding, so space must indeed be
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by incepted 11y ago
Prediction: in a few days/weeks, Wired will back pedal on this decision under the pretense that they are listening to the feedback of angry users, while the reality will be that they have been hemorrhaging readership because of the dec
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by incepted 11y ago
209 days is "new" to you? Why does it even matter how old the account is?
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by incepted 11y ago
You attacked my comment based on your misperception of my account. It's the definition of an ad hominem.
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by incepted 11y ago
Why does the account creation matter? Because the point made bothers you so you'd better discuss the personality of the person who made them? Address the topic, stay away from ad hominem. Besides, my account is 209 days old.
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by incepted 11y ago
What are you talking about? My account is 209 days old. At any rate, ad hominem are not welcome on HN. Address the topic or say nothing, it's a waste of time to speculate on the author.
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by incepted 11y ago
> Too bad that 1.0 will ship without something like Scala Future's. I see that as a good thing. Once something is committed to the standard library, it's very hard to get rid of it and the best practices surrounding Futures are
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by incepted 11y ago
He just sold them an app worth a lot of money, why would he give more? Besides, churches already make enough money as it is.
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by incepted 11y ago
Huge workforce to hire from (crucial for start ups), vibrant and huge cosystem, battle tested, can scale to pretty much any size, write once, develop anywhere, ... I know HN is a bit in a bubble but I've dealt with hundreds of startups
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by incepted 11y ago
Trust you to stay in business long enough that they can make money until the unavoidable demise.
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by incepted 11y ago
The main problem with languages that generate C or some other language is debugging. Does Nim have a good answer to this?
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by incepted 11y ago
Note: the title is misleading. The book is not available yet, only the first three chapters.
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by incepted 11y ago
As a matter of fact, I've never seen rabbits wearing glasses.
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by incepted 11y ago
UFO's are real. There are thousands of such events reported a bit everywhere around the world every year. Of course, most of them never remain "unidentified" very long: optical illusions, weather balloons, discarded objects f
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by incepted 11y ago
You missed "automated" in "automated refactorings". This is what I'm talking about. Without types, IDE's can't perform automated refactorings: you need to supervise them and make sure the IDE didn't b
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by incepted 11y ago
> but I have found that nothing is as important as tests when refactoring You don't need those with static types. You only need to write tests for your actual code, not things that the compiler can check for you. Manually writing co
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by incepted 11y ago
The main advantage of static typing to me is that it enables automatic refactorings. Without types, it's impossible for tools to refactor your code safely without the supervision of a human. This leads to developers being afraid of ref
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by incepted 11y ago
jQuery filled a need. It's as simple as that. Its success has nothing to do with looking in the other direction or not redefining Javascript: it solved a problem that a lot of Javascript developers were struggling with. Now what's
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by incepted 11y ago
> There is no guessing, there is just a false sense of security. How is it false? > the uncertainty of a dynamic language is often an advantage How can uncertainty ever be an advantage over certainty? > I've seen multiple time
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by incepted 11y ago
> You are completely ignoring the point of dynamic typing and you are using it as if it were static typing without annotations That's exactly what it is. What is your definition of a dynamically typed language?

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