mrudolph22

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by mrudolph22 2y ago
Kotlin is #23 in this irrelevant index.
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
I first learned Java in 1997 and have been using it professionally since 2005. If your Kotlin code is pretty indistinguishable from your Java code, you aren't using Kotlin properly. Here is what I wrote on this topic in 2022: Here are
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
Many of Kotlin's profound improvements will never find their way into Java because it's 25 years too late to do so. Java improves where it still can, which is the right thing to do. Sometimes Java even manages to improve on Kotlin
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
If you think Kotlin is marginally better than Java, you probably have a superficial understanding of Kotlin. Kotlin is vastly better than Java, which isn't surprising because Kotlin was designed 15 years later with the explicit goal of
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
Thanks for the offer! I’ll give Mill another shot the next time Gradle drives me crazy. :-)
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
They transitioned to a product company 5+ years ago. https://gradle.com Gradle's complexity comes from at least two places: 1. The original vision of solving complex multi-technology/language Enterprise builds. 2. Poor
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
I'm afraid that no current config language is an obvious fit for Mill. That's because Mill is fully reactive and doesn't distinguish between build configuration and execution by design.
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
Modern config languages offer strong validation and advanced IDE support, which is essential for a great user experience. https://pkl-lang.org/intellij/current/highlights.html
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
I gave Mill a try earlier this year. My hope was to escape the nightmare that is Gradle, which I've been using for many years. Mill sounds great in theory (except for the Scala DSL). Unfortunately, I couldn't get a basic Java buil
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
Just wanted to mention that there are much better config languages than Starlark by now: CUE, Pkl, etc.
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by mrudolph22 2y ago
Java 21+ (virtual threads).
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by mrudolph22 3y ago
In theory, yes. But I doubt that we’ll see a TS IDE plugin that underlines violated constraints with red squiggles anytime soon. :-)
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by mrudolph22 3y ago
TS tooling won’t tell you when your config value violates the constraint “isBetween(0, 100)” or “matches(Regex(…))”. Among other things.
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by mrudolph22 3y ago
> I do wish they just contributed to nickel or something else though rather than doing their NIH as usual. Did Nickel exist in 2018? (Someone here said that Pkl did.)
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by mrudolph22 3y ago
Refactorings are one example where LSP can’t match IntelliJ. A language server also takes far more skill and effort to implement than the equivalent IntelliJ plugin, where much of the heavy lifting is done by the IntelliJ framework. And y
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by mrudolph22 3y ago
Java modules are fine but don’t offer a solution for version conflicts.
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by mrudolph22 3y ago
Java doesn’t have a universal practical solution for this. Principled solutions based on custom class loaders (such as OSGi) added tremendous complexity and created more problems than they solved. Other solutions such as shading (renaming c
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by mrudolph22 3y ago
Katlin isn’t developed by Google but by JetBrains. It is a multi-platform language and isn’t tied to the JVM.
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by mrudolph22 4y ago
The headline is misleading. Whereas current vaccines don’t protect from infection with Delta and later variants, they still protect from serious illness and death. From the article: > Experts and regulators broadly acknowledge the benefi