@maikel@vmst.io i haven’t looked into kotlin. i sure wish app development didn’t require using specific languages. does kotlin look like java at all?
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@maikel@vmst.io i haven’t looked into kotlin. i sure wish app development didn’t require using specific languages. does kotlin look like java at all?
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@ellyxir if you know Java many things would look familiar, but the code doesn't look Java-ish at all. It's a lot less verbose, even to run something it doesn't require you to create a stupid and unnecesary class.
And btw, you can compile to machine code directly, there's a thing called Kotlin Native, ideal for making quick and dirty CLI tools.
![// Minimum Hello World in Java
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello, World");
}
}
// Kotlin
fun main() println("Hello World")](https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/774/325/176/166/992/original/2e91b8cd11a857cd.png)
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@maikel@vmst.io that looks so much better lol
@ellyxir Kotlin native seems quite interesting to me. I've always tried to find something to make Nagios/Sensu style quick checks in single-binaries.
To be able to distribute those checks without the need for a virtual machine or dependencies. Specially in the case of Sensu, that you can run distributed to avoid SPoF.
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@ellyxir I wouldn't be interested at all if it weren't for Kotlin Multiplatform.
It is what React Native promised and never delivered.
React Native is absolutely awful for anything other than prototyping ideas.
And Flutter....well...who needs Flutter when Kotlin thanks to Kotlin Multiplatform can now do the same thing with a much larger ready ecosystem.
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@maikel@vmst.io ya i never looked into dart and flutter. so i couldnt even begin to compare it to kotlin
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@ellyxir look how pretty these two screens are looking already
(that's all the KMP version does for now, I'm playing around with designs while I learn both Kotlin AND Jetpack)
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@maikel@vmst.io this is looking sharp! very nice!
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Java is that university enforced language that was drilled into your mind module after module to just convince you OOP was the only way, when you already knew due to REAL LIFE being faster than every university syllabus catching up, that there were other paradigms.
Hence why I hate it.
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