Questions related to tech debt probably Any reason Arrow is kotlinlang #arrow-contributors

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stojan

10/10/2019, 9:21 AM

Questions related to tech debt (probably) - Any reason Arrow is targeting Java7 bytecode? even Android moved to 8 😄 - Any reason Arrow is using

compile

instead of

api/implementation

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gildor

10/10/2019, 9:22 AM

Android is not moved to 8

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stojan

10/10/2019, 9:26 AM

it supports the language features, but does not support some APIs on all platforms like: time API or Streams https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support

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gildor

10/10/2019, 9:26 AM

It force any user of Arrow to use Desugaring and also target Java 8, which is good, but still have build time penalties

I do not say that it’s bad to force people to migrate to Java 8, just want to say that it’s not free and may be a problem for some projects to adopt Arrow

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stojan

10/10/2019, 9:28 AM

valid point... and I would say that is a feature.... popular libraries like Retrofit and OkHttp already have those requirements

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gildor

10/10/2019, 9:29 AM

also it will not give any advantages on practice

Yes, they do, and work as a force to push people to migrate, but those are huge on Android, but personally I wouldn’t migrate my own Kotlin-only library, just because I don’t see any significant advantages and it may be a problem for some projects to adopt it

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stojan

10/10/2019, 9:34 AM

I would say the adoption would not be a problem for Arrow... the intersection of people doing FP and are using Java7 bytecode is probably 3 people

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gildor

10/10/2019, 9:35 AM

yes, and how many of them on Android?

also, what would it change for Arrow?

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stojan

10/10/2019, 9:37 AM

not adding value is a valid point 🙂

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