good morning, do we have some :gradle: experts here?

I didnt expect GraphQL to make my life so much easier

I tried generating a wrapper lib, but I get ugly gcc errors "/usr/lib/jvm/java-13-openjdk/include/linux/jni_md.h:37:27: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘__attribute__’ 37 | #define JNIEXPORT __attribute__((visibility("default")))"

Are we allowed to do some shameless open roles plugging in here?

I'll second that, thanks everyone for coming! Here are the references from my slide: 1. Monad in Pictures - http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html 2. Arrow - https://arrow-kt.io/ 3. My Kotlin Project with all the examples listed there: https://github.com/adomokos/kotlin-sandbox The last one (my project) is listed on Arrow as well: https://arrow-kt.io/docs/quickstart/projects/.

Question for folks: What are your favorite podcast apps? I'm on iOS (ducks) haha but from an accessibility standpoint, I'd like to know what you all tend to use.

Thanks @Attila Domokos! Your talk was absolutely awesome!

It’s so much easier to stay home when I’m not required to 😂

Hey all, I'd like to take the dive and learn enough Kotlin to earn a Kotlin developer role in Chicago by January or February of next year. I can commit an hour a day and possibly more on the weekends. Besides the Koans, do any of you have recommendations on how to work towards effectively landing a Kotlin-specific developer role?

Why do you want to use Kotlin? Is it for Android, multi-platform, typescript replacement, backend, something else?

Gotcha. So first and foremost, I would stay the course with Koans. It has been ~3 years now since I did them and I remember them being rough and having to check the solutions 65% of the time, but it was really helpful to see how you'd approach problems in Kotlin instead of Java through Kotlin syntax. After that, #spring has been a big backer of Kotlin. If you are comfortable with Spring today then take a look at what they are doing with Kotlin. Theoretically, there is nothing stopping you from writing some Kotlin today at your day job because the interop is so good. As an #android developer, I've been working with #ktor lately on a backend project to help me learn about Google cloud. Ktor has been amazing and it's heavily based on #coroutines so you'd be able to get some experience with how those work. Honestly, I would focus much more on a personal project or finding a way to get Kotlin where you currently are working. You'll learn way more from building something than going through additional courses or reading books. The kotlin lang documentation is a wealth of knowledge, I often link directly to their articles instead of some medium article because they tend to do a great job explaining things (albeit a little dry at times). Using #detekt sooner rather than later can be nice too, the lint checks are a good way to have code review for general things, oftentimes you'll learn about language features or it will push you to do something differently because it violates a rule. Hopefully this helps a bit. Also feel free to ask questions in the different slack channels as you run into issues. I've found most channels to be fairly active and there is usually at least one person happy to help out.

@josh: I was not a Java user but had to use Java libraries. Started on Scala got afraid that nothing was getting done in weeks, switched to Kotlin and never looked back.

Hello! By any chance anyone here build maven plugin using gradle (trying to build both gradle and maven plugins in single build)? Almost got it working but need to generate maven plugin metadata which is generated through corresponding maven plugin. Was thinking about invoking maven wrapper to run it but it looks like it requires project to run...

how do you write that in kotlin?

I realised that I have a lot of gradle processes that are left around even after exiting intellij. And they use a lot of memory. Is there a way to tell gradle to exit itself after a give time?

Good morning Chicago! Today is the kick-off for the Kotlin 1.4 Release party. https://kotlinlang.org/lp/event-14/ Tune in!

Hey, @Dariusz Kuc was featured in this Kotlin Event talk about backend use cases for kotlin!

cool intellij has a new pair programming thingy

but I can't get the correct syntax for gradle to build the lib when building the JNI classes…

Hello from the suburbs! I’m an SDET for Hyatt working with Kotlin in my day to day. How is everyone?

Chicago KUG is live now!

Just attended today's Meetup. This channel was mentioned but it looks like it's not very active. Is there a more active online space for the Chicago Kotlin Meetup?

This is the main place

its been quieter since the pandemic tbh

forwarding this from Mary at CJUG: FYI jConf.dev Chicago will be an in-person event this year. We welcome submissions on any interesting topics (and they do not necessarily have to be directly Java related). Dates:

September 26-28

(workshop day: Sept 26) Venue: U of Illinois-Chicago campus, Dorin Forum * The Call-for-Proposals will be extended for Chicago and vicinity folks, as the conference is encouraging more speakers especially from our area. If you are interested in speaking at the conference, and would like to get some tips on writing proposals, the Chicago Java Users Group and the Atlanta Java Users Group are planning to host a CFP proposals crafting virtual session on Wednesday, July 13, at 7pm-CDT. Please react with any emoji here if you’d like to join us. You’re welcome to suggest another time too if you’d like and we’ll try to accommodate. Thank you for your attention!

Who am I gonna get to see at Chicago Roboto after so much time away?

Hey Chicago! We got @Tadeas Kriz guesting for today's show 5:30pm CST. Hope you can stop by! https://www.meetup.com/chicago-kotlin/events/287597836/

Hello friends! @wakingrufus and I are hosting a social on the Riverwalk October 6. Come by and say hello! It's a gorgeous time of the year to be down at the Chicago loop river 🙌 https://www.meetup.com/chicago-kotlin/events/288326368/