hopefully this is the right place to post this I am working

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hopefully this is the right place to post this I am working on converting a project I co founded ezAuton to Kotlin It is a general purpose library for controlling robots aimed for high schoolers middle schoolers in the FIRST Robotics Competition Would anyone be willing to get into a voice call on Slack if this works never tried it or Discord I have a bullet list of quite a few design questions and I d like someone who has a bit more experience in designing programs as well as Kotlin to be able to give me their opinion <https github com ezAuton ezAuton tree convert kotlin> if you are interested add me `Andrew Gazelka 0001` Discord

Andrew Gazelka · Answer

basically I am super OCD about my code and it takes a really long time to come up with the best way to design something by myself from the ground up so it is nice to hear someone else s opinions

Andrew Gazelka · Answer

especially since Kotlin has the ability to turn most things functional but at the same time I kinda don t want to ruin Java interop

Andrew Gazelka · Answer

this is especially an issue with figuring out the best way to still allow for suspending function based operations to be programmed in Java as this is a lib for Java and Kotlin

Andrew Gazelka · Answer

and I don t want to force everything to just be run on separate threads cause that is VERY inefficient esp on the ARM processor this code is generally run on

Mike · Answer

One opinion If your primary objective is both Java and kotlin support it might be better to write the library in Java and add a kotlin library to provide idiomatic access rather than the other way around I recall a thread somewhere here with a lengthy discussion and that was the general conclusion Easier to develop that way Sorry I don t have a pointer to the thread though

Andrew Gazelka · Answer

That s what I started out doing However in the community I m in it is generally trendy to program in Kotlin so I am thinking of mainly supporting people who use Kotlin but also allow for people to use Java if they need to

Andrew Gazelka · Answer

the problem also is coroutines would be RIP if it were made mostly in Java confused

Andrew Gazelka · Answer

so idk if benefits outweigh costs but I ll have to think about it

Mike · Answer

Yep Only you can decide what s best for your community Just put it out there for consideration Good luck as it does sound like a very interesting project