jpliska

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by jpliska 9y ago
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.
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by jpliska 9y ago
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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by jpliska 10y ago
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by jpliska 10y ago
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)
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by jpliska 10y ago
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, re
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by jpliska 10y ago
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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by jpliska 10y ago
I'm looking for someone to partner with me on http://www.ballotbin.com The system needs changes (in frontend, backend, sysadmin). It is pretty much the same as in 2002.
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by jpliska 10y ago
Check out kotlinlang by Jetbrains. It's git the best of java, C# and python
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by jpliska 10y ago
Have you all seen Kotlin?
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by jpliska 10y ago
Have you seen kotlin? Its a cross between java, python and scala for the JVM (and JS - with wrinkles)
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by jpliska 11y ago
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
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by jpliska 11y ago
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.