I think is more active now, to the point that is difficult to read every post

I suppose that might depend on the channels you are in? I think that the “activity arc” is on a per-channel basis, not on a slack-wide basis. So if there are 10k people in the slack, and 1% are in a given channel, that moves it into the “active” band, but if 100% are in the channel, it becomes a bit more slow. And with enough people you can hit the “high activity” band in more specialized channels. I have no data to back up this hypothesis though, but I’d love to see some!

This makes no sense.. huge IRC channels work great. I learned Clojure solely from interacting at #clojure where there was always someone willing to help. I wish this slack was half as active as #clojure. Lately I noticed that a question can go unanswered for days or forever.

I was telling my team about rubber duck debugging (we use Java Duke for that) and that got me thinking about Kotlin not having one. A couple of minutes later I've found this very nice proposal: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotlin/comments/5ob11m/hello_is_this_an_anime_channel/ Is there anything planned in that regard (the mascot, not necessarily this specific proposal)?

Mr. O'Nolan obviously talks about his specific experience (anecdote) but tends to generalize without providing any supporting evidence. Since we're speculating here, I too will speculate. I think that the Activity/ComunitySize relationship very much depends on the subject. In Mr. O'Nolan's case the subject is a publishing platform, which obviously attracts publishers/authors same as programming language attracts developers but there similarity ends. There are not many possibilities for speciation (sorry for using a biology term here) with authors in relation to publishing platform. On the other hand with developers and a programming language there is huge potential for speciation: libraries, frameworks, platforms, programming styles (pure functional, OOP, mixed, scripting), tools, etc. So here I have to agree with @dalexander this speciation allows for tighter interest groups which are subsets of the whole community. Another point is, all those libraries, frameworks, etc. are created, evolved, revolutionized and sometimes abandoned constantly, so new topics for discussions and new interest groups are also spawned constantly. I think the problems with slack stem from misunderstanding of its purpose and misuse of its features. Slack is a platform for ephemeral (or semi-permanent if it's not a free instance) discussions, quick questions and answers, but it is not a knowledge gathering or Q/A platform, nither it is a forum. For those types of uses there are other products and Kotlin is represented on them (youtrack, stackoverflow, r/kotlin, discuss.kotlinlang.org) etc.

One of my favorite programming mascots is the ferris for Rust

it’d be nice if we could get something similar to that 😛

Rust is setting a pretty high bar with that mascot.

But @perryprog we already have the amazing kotlin water bottles from the last kotlin-conf! These are even

functional

. I wear mine with proud each time I go the gym.

ooo I haven’t seen them

we could have a water bottle mascot 😆

And for the elite among the best in the kuniverse , they hand out bottles of kotlin ketchup.

that’s amazing

see https://ibb.co/myzOgc

That's the best Java GC i've seen: https://twitter.com/jtannady/status/981547257479778307

But this is not the G1, is it? 😄

It is clearly a 2-generational GC

I see the copyright date at the bottom of

<https://try.kotlinlang.org>

is still showing 2000-2016, hehe

well, if no one changed the website since 2016, then -2016 is correct

I mean I might as well define it myself but I'd prefer not to 😄

at least they got

city

right

Let's hope for improvements in kotlin gc: https://kronnews.ru/2017/09/16/26999_kogda-zhe-vyvezut-musor/

I accidentally remove the unused warning for an annotation -.- How can I bring it back? 😄

CMD/CTRL + Z? or if you use some sort of Source Version Control just go back to a previous state

No I mean I'm not getting the warning from IntelliJ anymore

even without the @SuppressWarning annotation

Preferences, Editor, Inspections?

☝️

Yes thanks found it 😄