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[kioba]

https://twitter.com/JakeWharton/status/1139530246041022465?s=08

[kioba]

KEEP-87 is to fix bad patterns on Android 🤔
That message sounds quite amazing.

[streetsofboston]

That’s not its purpose, but it would help doing just that! 🙂 (not fixing it, but having a band-aid that would part of the language)

[raulraja]

KEEP-87 and type class in genral propose a resolution system for type associations and that solves most problems related to passing things around which is Android biggest issue due to the impossition of the Context hierarchies and callbacks

[raulraja]

It’s still the 90's in Android land

[raulraja]

with type classes you can hide a lot of that complexity

[bloder]

We could get all those Dagger (DI library) benefits over service locator solutions with much less boilerplate, I'm pretty excited about Typeclasses in Kotlin 🙂

[bloder]

@raulraja are we still waiting kotlin compiler team feedback to continue?

[raulraja]

Yes, though we are also exploring compiler plugins as a potential interim solution

[laimiux]

Sorry, what’s the process for the KEEP approval?

[raulraja]

I'm not sure if there is one but you may have more luck in #language-proposals