So i have thoroughly been enjoying learning Kotlin...

# announcements

[Spike Baylor]

So i have thoroughly been enjoying learning Kotlin for the past month or so, but now I find myself routinely forgetting semicolons when i go back to java, js, or ts 😞

[diesieben07]

js and ts technically have optional semicolons 😉

[louiscad]

That is the Kotlin lock-in 🧌

[Spike Baylor]

yeah, but my linter yells at me 😢

[Saša Šijak]

i usually finish my lines in java in intellij with cmd+shift+enter which adds semicolon automatically 😄

[Spike Baylor]

interesting, i did not know that. I dunno if i could get used to adding 2 more buttons for something that is as automatic as breathing at this point 🙂 But i AM always impressed by some of the little things IntelliJ has hidden away.

[mp]

It will also close any expressions you're on: adding ), {, etc, as needed. I use it pretty much always

[mp]

(allegedly ... I've never seen it close a ), though it's supposed to, because IntelliJ already inserts the ) for me when I add (...)

[Spike Baylor]

maybe i'll give it a shot for fun. Ha... throw out a joke post and learn something new 🙂 what a nice place this is lol

[mp]

There should be a "keyboard shortcut a day" twitter account for IntelliJ 😉

[Saša Šijak]

it finishes any expression so it is really useful

[Saša Šijak]

or it jumps to/ads next appropriate thing for example if you start typing
if(someexpresion
and press cmd+shift+enter it ads ) {

}
and puts the cursor between curly braces

[Spike Baylor]

damnit now i really do have to start using it.

[Saša Šijak]

to sum it up - intellij is great when you get used to all the little productivity things it provides 🙂

[Saša Šijak]

it just has to bi put into muscle memory like anyhting else

[Spike Baylor]

its been amazing. Up until recently i've been purely desktop java code for many many years using Eclipse which was fine. But this year i had to work on some spring and angular stuff and eclipse was killing me. Intellij to the rescue... it only took a day or two to convince me to pay for it.

[Spike Baylor]

but i know i'm not using it to its fullest even.. so many nice little things

[Strum355]

@Spike Baylor assuming youre using tslint, you can disable warnings/errors for missing semicolons

[Spike Baylor]

Yeah.. Part of that probably has more to do with typescript being fairly new to our process and so we dont have our own lint/style guides so right now we just have a standard set of rules. Im sure thats something i could get removed but also not THAT big of a deal