Is it feasible to learn Kotlin instead of javascri...
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clockworkant
06/24/2017, 9:18 PMIs it feasible to learn Kotlin instead of javascript or do I really need to learn both. I'm coming from a background of 8 years of android/java with some html/css/php on occasion.
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Dalinar
06/25/2017, 9:10 AMclockworkant: my experience is pretty good so far, I was thinking to use either Kotlin or TypeScript because I wanted some type safety and real classes. I chose Kotlin because I was experienced with it, vs. not knowing anything about TypeScript - I haven't really come across any bugs so far, so I'd say it's stable ( just mentioning this because we now have Kotlin 1.1 and I read JS support prior to 1.1 was experimental) - the main problem regarding experimental status is that a lot of the code out there on the net, code examples and some libraries use deprecated language features... things you come across by googling... so just keep that in mind when you google
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clockworkant
06/25/2017, 10:25 AMThanks Mishaxz, that's really helpful to know 🙂 Typescript was also on my radar!
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jean
06/27/2017, 7:00 PMOnly a bit of JavaScript is required. You will occasionally need to check generated JavaScript code to find out what was generated by compiler and why it does not work. I mostly have to do that when working with JS libraries.