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by zserge 11y ago
Kotlin is a really good language. I really want it to be my primary language for android development. The only problem I have now is build times. It's about twice as slow to build a Kotlin app than Java app.
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by zserge 11y ago
I'm now trying to use Buck build system with Kotlin. It looks like in the M12 kotlin-compiler.jar the annotation NotNull.class is embedded twice.
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by zserge 11y ago
Right, the runtime speed of Kotlin is very good. But the build times got much slower. An average java build with Gradle takes ~30 seconds on my pretty old laptop, but with Kotlin it is about 1 minute. Daemon and parallel are enabled in glob
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by zserge 11y ago
Do you use Kotlin with Gradle? I like Kotlin a lot, but it feels very slow on my laptop, do you know if there any special optimizations to make it faster?
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by zserge 11y ago
Oh, finally I'm not alone here! I use vim/tmux and yesterday I discovered Buck and made a quick project generator: http://zserge.com/blog/buck-build-system.html
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by zserge 11y ago
Finally my android builds are fast enough to not lose the focus waiting for the build to finish! Thank you, guys. I wonder if Buck supports Kotlin, or if not - how hard would it be to add it?
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by zserge 11y ago
My first candidate for removal would be fragments. They don't help to componentize apps at all (at least not better than plain old viewgroups), but they can make life much harder with weird hidden bugs. There is brilliant article from
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by zserge 11y ago
Almost correct. I never thought of this kind of syntax sugar initially. But technically (and people posted an issue about it) it's possible to generate functions like linearLayout() etc from android.jar for Anvil/Java. This will w
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by zserge 11y ago
Oh, so Anko and Koan is the same project? Stupid me, I wondered what happened to Koan when I saw Anko first (and I didn't think of an anagram).
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by zserge 11y ago
Let me try to answer it. I'm sure that I won't change your mind, but when I published Anvil (a similar library for Java) - I got lots of questions like yours. - XMLs are not type safe, I can type any tag name in there, and I can s
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by zserge 11y ago
Thanks! Unfortunately neither of the data binding libraries for Android worked for me, because they are either too hard to extend or too big/complex. RoboBinding's idea is nice, but to me it's too implicit. It's really h
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by zserge 11y ago
You might like Anvil: it's a declarative react-like UI library for Android. I personally use it a lot, and I normally write single-activity applications (e.g. I have my own backstack of views inside a single activity): https:/&#x
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by zserge 11y ago
Plan9 utils usually have less options and smaller functionality, but you can easily compose them. "rc": I like it much more than sh for scripting. It's easier to learn and has less pitfalls. "cat" has no options at
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by zserge 11y ago
It would be cool to have a "busybox" alternative targeted at Plan9 commands. I personally find Plan9 utils much more logical (and easier to implement!). Something like 9base from suckless, but as a single binary and hopefully in a
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by zserge 11y ago
May I suggest a more lightweight alternative for Tmux/Screen/DVTM sessions - http://zserge.com/blog/mucks2.html ?
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by zserge 11y ago
Totally agree with you! Kotlin is great replacement for Java on Android. I like to see that more and more interesting libraries appear for Kotlin, like Anko. I recently made Anvil compatible with Kotlin ( http://zserge.com/bl
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by zserge 11y ago
At the moment Anvil is my favourite child: - https://github.com/zserge/anvil - a new reactive UI library for android. It totally changed the way I develop android apps now. Also there is some tiny ones, but found usefu
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by zserge 12y ago
Thinkpad x120e + Gentoo is the only development machine I run (still looking for a newer 12" thinkpad to replace this one). There is also ubuntu installed in the chroot (for android firmware builds) and a few docker containers with var
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by zserge 12y ago
Does anyone know when the HTTP/2 client for Go will be available? And, are they likely to include http/2 into a standard net/http package?
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by zserge 12y ago
It should be available as: <dependency> <groupId>co.trikita</groupId> <artifactId>anvil</artifactId> <version>0.0.2</version> </dependency&gt
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by zserge 12y ago
I've just published the release today, it should be available within the next few hours. Meanwhile you can build it from the github sources.
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Show HN: Anvil – a tiny reactive android UI library(zserge.com)
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by zserge 12y ago
Definitely, Brodsky. Unfortunately, not many of his poems were written in English, and only a few were translated. All the huskies are eaten. There is no space left in the diary And the beads of quick words scatter over his spouse&#
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by zserge 12y ago
Are these full-size keys?
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by zserge 12y ago
> To compile Cello requires a C99 compatible C compiler. In fact, it fails to compile with -std=c99, it seems to require GNU extenstions, that's why they have -std=gnu99 in their Makefile. They use ##__VA_ARGS__, which is not in the
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by zserge 12y ago
sam is here, but no acme?
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by zserge 12y ago
You might want to have a look at Mithril, it's extremely minimalistic and fast: lhorie.github.io/mithril/mithril.html
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by zserge 12y ago
Thanks! Config file looks like a powerful way to customize builds. But am I right saying that I will have two configs (for host and target) and I will have to pass --force-config option to toggle them?
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by zserge 12y ago
Oh, thanks for a prompt response! I personally got stuck with LuaRocks and cross-compilation for our MIPS board. Probably it was lack of documentation or lack of my knowledge. So instead I manually crafted most of the packages we needed eit
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by zserge 12y ago
So, LuaRocks contains just 330 packages and doesn't look like the best package manager for Lua (and they also have a terrible website as for me). If a community here wants to make things better - let's meet somehow and discuss it.

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