It is done: #introduce-yourself

they are miles ahead from the competition

What was the effort to migrate? Including failed tests, etc 🙂

Opinion question: If you have a suite of libraries that are almost completely modular but can be used together very effectively, do you split them up across repositories and if so, how? I've been thinking about this for a bit. You might end up with sub-libraries that give you the ability to use two of them together. For example if you have a networking library and a serialization library, then you could use a third, really small library that adds networking functions that use serialization.

What do you do for

fun

, that is not work? Person A: I watch YouTube videos about stuff Person B: See…

Actually, it’s a nice question for #random 🙂 What’s your hobby? What do you do for fun that is not programming?

I play guitar and ukulele, love snowboarding and interested in game design (it’s kinda programming, but still)

Here's an abstract of my main hobbies: I like to imagine solutions to technical problems, or world problems. The biggest the potential impact, the more I'm interested in thinking about it, and talking about it too. Efficiency, and sometimes, crazy fun too, are at the heart of my imagination and thinking. I also try to act on it, by commuting efficiently for example (🚲), telling myself that every move counts, because it's the water drop that makes the vase overflow. I also like playing with Lego Technic at times (but am I more into playing into my mind now that it is trained). To sum it up, out of the box thinking is pretty much my all the time hobby. BTW, linking it back to

fun

, something I love with Kotlin is how it helps me make my imagination a reality quicker (compared to other programming languages, and compared to every non programming stuff).

I design video games every once in a while. Love the indie games and enjoy hacks of old games quite a bit. Hollow Knight is incredible, by the way, if you’re looking for a good single player game to get lost in.

This is disappointing. So if I inline an

Int

that is a factor of

5

, I can't enforce this due to private constructor not being allowed?

I know little about bytecode and compiler magic, but I am surprised compilation can't do an

init { }

using a simple static function like this:

What is this laptop with Android on it? https://twitter.com/ag_dubs/status/1059906357204201473

Turns out you can omit the braces in `do {} while ()`:

do step() while(true)

Sorry, has anyone came across good Go Koans (like Kotlin Koans but for Go Lang)? All that I've found are unofficial and suck 😢

In Kotlin novices get puzzled by things like

!!

because it is not common and cannot be read. Avoiding notation altogether and going all English is utopia, though. You need some notation.

Novices (such as me) also could be confused with such terms as mutability and nullability (after C pointers and the world where everything is a number it's quite new)

Tiobe index is a very strange thing, Delphi is sitting in the top 20, VB is #20 and Cobol at 25 whereas Scala and F# only come in at 26 and 27. Fortran is more popular than Rust apparently

Why do we need Rust?

seems there really is just the german words markt and punkt that match

ugh I’m so glad I don’t have to sit in meetings assigning points to things anymore

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A Software Developer was asked a question on why they prefer PHP. Their answer is that they never learned another programming language 🤦‍♂️ 🤣 -

Hey guys, we are running Kotlin in production for over a year now and chose it as a primary language for our distributed platform which's developers were coming from a background of having 5+ years of Scala, Go, Java. We are now recollecting the learnings about the language and its ecosystem, and how did it have (no?) advantage in respect to its features. I would love to ask you to participate and share your experience by filling in a simple form here: http://bit.ly/kotlin-learnings I will be writing up a blog post about the collected data and will share it here. Thanks a lot! :kotlin: 🚀

What's your favorite question?

SomeoneWhoKnows_howtouseKotlinWELL

if subscripts existed in code or as a mod key on keyboards (a la shift), would you prefer Bᵢ to

B[i]

?

is mathematical interval notation inherently clashy with typical code syntax?

[1,10)

vs

1 until 10

?

Tons of student interest in Kotlin! My course at SUNY Poly next semester filled immediately and my email has been flooded with requests from students asking to be let in. I’ve requested a larger lecture hall to accommodate!