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julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:05 PMlooks like something great - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:09 PMhow are going your experiments with codegen ? - j
jasoet
12/09/2016, 5:14 PMJust started, i notice that Vertx API has annotation such as
, think it will be great with Kotlin since Kotlin has Nullable or NonNull type@Nullable - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:15 PMyes - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:15 PMyou are right - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:15 PMthe
info can be obtained on the TypeInfo object@Nullable - j
jasoet
12/09/2016, 5:15 PMVertx use MVEL template right? - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:15 PMyes indeed - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:16 PMI hope it’s not too much an issue 🙂 - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:16 PMthe current mvel doc is http://mvel.documentnode.com - j
jasoet
12/09/2016, 5:18 PMI believe not 🙂 it can be learned. - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:19 PMyeah but it’s another barrier - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:19 PMat some point I wanted to remove it and only keep Java - j
jasoet
12/09/2016, 5:19 PMjust recover from my heavy tiredness. now i will have more time - j
jasoet
12/09/2016, 5:20 PMBut designing Template Engine from Scratch will takes time - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:20 PMwhat do you mean ? - j
jasoet
12/09/2016, 5:21 PMi mean if we remove MVEL and use only Java, we well need to create a kind of "Template Engine" our self right? - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:21 PMah no - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:21 PMI meant that it would only be done using System.out.println - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:21 PMor a writer - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:21 PMthing is that now most templates are pretty much functionnal - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:21 PMthe current kotlin is pretty simple - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:22 PMbut if you look at others - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:22 PMthey tend to have functions to generated things like - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:22 PMconv return expression - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:22 PMconv param conversion expression - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:22 PMgenerate lang types - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:22 PMand these templates are sometimes recursive - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:22 PMand then there is a little of real templating but not much - j
julienviet
12/09/2016, 5:23 PMthat is hard to read