would Kotlin help me besides optionals and monkey ...

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[johnl]

would Kotlin help me besides optionals and monkey patching utils

[robin]

billy: Well it will definitely be a lot easier than trying to port it using plain Java. And tbh there are not a lot of other options.

[johnl]

i like kotlin

[johnl]

i use groovy for limited stuff like models

[johnl]

just trying to keep the code base as small as possible without getting into wierd stuff like scala

[johnl]

or going full groovy which is kind of a nightmare when you try and scale it

[robin]

We all do, that's why where here 😄
Groovy is a dynamically typed language, so yeah that's not going to scale well. I think you will be pretty happy with kotlin 😉

[johnl]

also the client uses reactive heavily

[johnl]

and I know kotlinRx is just a wrapper

[johnl]

so I hope that RxJava is easy to use

[johnl]

because I want that client code to be portable without a huge hassle

[robin]

RxJava is great. It's as easy to use as possible from Java code, but RxKotlin gives you a lot of sugar over that so usage from Kotlin is even easier.

[johnl]

ya know its funny

[johnl]

Im so glad you guys have Kotlin

[johnl]

mostly because groovy and scala have been such a dissapointment

[johnl]

although I love gradle

[robin]

Exactly the reason why JB decided to develop kotlin.

[johnl]

All I wanted to tell the swift guy at apple

[johnl]

was STOP

[johnl]

he had solved so many problems

[johnl]

and then went into functional types and all kinds of wierdness

[johnl]

he had actually solved iOS but he went too far

[johnl]

like scala and groovy to an extent