So Kotlin style guide evolved, from 8 spaces to 4 ...
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louiscad
10/26/2018, 7:08 PMSo Kotlin style guide evolved, from 8 spaces to 4 for continuation indent. Why 8 spaces before? So people transition to 4 spaces later, creating a lots of activity in codebases, which GitHub counts as contributions using Kotlin programming language, and then showcases in octoverse.
Conspiracy? Smart move? Doesn't matter, now you can't say you don't know.
I meant, Kotlin rocks (regardless)!
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Ruckus
10/26/2018, 7:12 PMI'm pretty sure double indent width continuations are pretty standard in Java. Not that this dismisses the conspiracy. You've got to get those TIOBE ratings up somehow, and when the language is so intuitive to use, you just don't get enough stackoverflow activity.
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louiscad
10/26/2018, 7:16 PMTIOBE shines by its current popularity, but has far from ideal metrics. Eventually, it will be disregarded when people will realize the best languages are not highlighted by TIOBE.
Popularity is different from quality, and rarely helps predict the future.
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Ruckus
10/26/2018, 7:18 PMYes, my comment was meant to be sarcastic. I should have added a 🧌 to make that clear.
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orangy
10/26/2018, 7:23 PM
Of course you should make sarcasm explicit, in Kotlin style!
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Nikky
10/26/2018, 7:44 PM Copy code
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louiscad
10/26/2018, 7:48 PMWe need extensions for emojis in unicode, Kotlin style!
louiscad
10/26/2018, 7:50 PMWhat if Unicode was Java, and something else, Kotlin? 🤯 😮
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Nikky
10/26/2018, 7:51 PMyou can just use emoji as is in strings most of the time
Nikky
10/26/2018, 7:52 PMbut maybe you want this: val Emoji.😱 =
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