Stand aside street shitters!
Kotlin
Jason Rodriguez
John Edwards
>another jvm meme language
Why bother?
Ryan Bell
This.
Call me when I can write an android app in a language that doesn't touch a JVM.
Michael Watson
isnt kotlin essentially java with a different syntax?
even uses the same garbage standard library
Noah Jenkins
Gotcha covered senpai
You can even share code with IOS and Windows, and Linux and pretty much everywhere C# runs on.
Brody Hernandez
> Xamarin
Buggy garbage.
Grayson Morgan
Yeah.
But at least it's better than the "muh web browser packaged up" bullshit most companies are doing.
Jacob Young
Kotlin might just be a small improvement upon Java, but the productivity gain is significant on a large scale.
Connor Green
how is that? is it because muh functional programming?
Luis Richardson
It gets rid of a lot of syntactical overhead when it comes to different method signatures, and introduces useful pattern matching invokation, along with better distinction of nullable and non-nullable types. NullPointerException no more, if you have half a brain.