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orangy
05/29/2018, 6:02 PM
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janvladimirmostert
05/30/2018, 10:13 AMI did this, got approval, wrote a relatively large project in Kotlin only to come back after a few days holiday being forced to rewrite it in Java8 against my will.
Left pretty soon after that to focus on startups. Haven't written a single line of Java in over a year, guess it worked out for me somehow.
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poohbar
05/30/2018, 4:48 PMWhy didthey make you rewrite in Java8?
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janvladimirmostert
05/30/2018, 4:51 PMSomeone complained that they didn't understand one of the lines of code and somewhere somebody was still using ant to build stuff even though I spent ages writing maven scripts for that project and deleted those ant scripts from git - so obviously something broke since ant didn't have Kotlin compiler in it and that was enough reason for management to have a total freakout about this harmful new tech I brought into the company
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aandreyev
05/30/2018, 7:24 PMSimilar story. I implemented POC project with e2e/integration tests in kotlin, cunducted a demo for the team, another demo for managers. Tried to outline safety, conciseness and pragmatic approach. Some people were sceptic, a few coworkers were eager to try but it did not convince management. "It will be better for the project and company to use java." they said. I left that company in half a year.
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janvladimirmostert
05/31/2018, 7:38 AMOne of the arguments given to me as well was how difficult it was to hire Kotlin devs - then when they needed Java devs, they hired a Python dev and trained him to do Java. I literally know dozens of people who'd give a left kidney to be able to work in Kotlin
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