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0 pointshinkley5mo ago0 comments

I wonder sometimes how much Kotlin contributed.

It’s certainly a case that languages need to be championed by competent IDE writers otherwise they fail to scale. Because you can’t have 50 devs all using neovim - and only neovim - without making a huge gigantic mess. Large projects can sustain a few brilliant people working with one hand tied behind their back but not everyone.

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motbus35mo ago

I'm curious about Kotlin. What makes it great for you?

I tried few times checking on it, but I failed to find something that motivated me to continue

hinkleyOP5mo ago

I haven't used it much. I know a few people who have.

But as I said above, I realized long ago that languages without IDEs by and large falter in the long term (that's why I'm currently concerned about Jetbrains needing a buggy plugin to do Elixir), so Jetbrains being behind it added a lot of gravitas.

And after fighting with Larry Ellison for a bit, Android phones moved to Kotlin to get around the lawyers.

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