jpliska

In many cases, you would get warnings when accessing a var that you don't get when accessing a val. Also, IntelliJ suggests converting to val if a var is never reassigned.

Can you share a link to an example?

How do you deal with the massive size of the javascript that is generated by kotlinJS?

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I wish some good designers would lend LibreOffice a hand. Even without reworking UX they could win over more users by being less ugly (compare MS Office start page)

Kotlin has been useful to me and easy to learn. It dovetails so well with exisiting java libraries that no Kotlin revolution (rewrite everything) is necessary. The most notable frameworks are in android land (Anvil, Bansa -- like react, redux). But on the backend, you can use stardard stuff. That's why Kotlin has been well accepted but not made a huge splash.

The use of the ~ here illustrates the problem in the scala world: a lot of surprising bells and whistles. Why not call it watch instead of ~?

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The system needs changes (in frontend, backend, sysadmin). It is pretty much the same as in 2002.

Check out kotlinlang by Jetbrains. It's git the best of java, C# and python

Have you all seen Kotlin?

Have you seen kotlin? Its a cross between java, python and scala for the JVM (and JS - with wrinkles)

Kobalt is a clever and fast build tool written in Kotlin. It is much simpler to use than the others you mention and still works with maven repos

There is a great build tool for Kotlin called Kobalt. It is quick, simple, and levrages all of the available maven packages.

Other than being MUCH faster to compile than Scala, kotlin is also much easier to read.

Also, Quasar is fantastic.