Due to its extensions and overall syntax philosoph...

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[Hullaballoonatic]

Due to its extensions and overall syntax philosophy, kotlin is the only language where i feel i can consistently write functions in the form of subject.verb(object). I personally hate syntax like python's len(list), because I feel like as a property of the list, it should be called as list.len, and that len(list) implies some kind of transformation of list

[serebit]

Completely agree. It feels weird to write an action performed by an object (as in .len) as an action performed on an object (such as len())

[Hullaballoonatic]

also i want all functions to be verbs, or perhaps to imply expensive functions

[Hullaballoonatic]

so i prefer that in kotlin you don't need the (), you can just do object.property

[Hullaballoonatic]

and it will still run the getter

[yen]

One small advantage of len() is that it’s a function, and therefore can be composed with other functions nicely.

[Hullaballoonatic]

but in Kotlin properties can be composed with other functions as well, because of `get`ters

[Hullaballoonatic]

i think that's the superior approach

[Hullaballoonatic]

i feel like python is designed for me to hate it, but i'm getting used to it.

[Hullaballoonatic]

i'm headed into AI R&D and so i pretty much have to force myself to become very good at python