Would be sweet if I can have a static #HTML / #CSS website that uses #HTMX for interaction with a backend written in Kotlin and compiled to #wasm running on an edge location using #wasi .
I really like #kotlin's (and others') approach to nullability, where nothing is nullable by default and you mark something as nullable by adding '?' to the type. And the '?.' syntax is nice too. 'foo: Foo? = ...; foo?.doThing()' is nicer than 'foo: Optional<Foo> = ...; foo.map(|it| it.doThing())', and both are miles better than "everything is always implicitly nullable unless annotated with '@NotNull' #plt
Hab ein bisschen weiter an der Kugelbahn gebastelt und etwas Schnickschnack eingebaut. Es gibt Schalter, die beim Überrollen Barrieren öffnen und einige Bahnelemente sind jetzt festgeschraubt, so dass sie sich nicht mehr verschieben lassen.
Ich überlege mir jetzt noch etwas mehr Schnickschnack 😀
Leider ruckelt es etwas im Android Emulator, aber auf dem Handy selber läuft alles total flüssig.
I can't deal with languages with optional semicolons! I like languages without semicolons, but when they're optional, especially if they feel "C-like", I always end up adding semicolons to some lines even when I try to write in a semicolon-less style. I'm writing some #kotlin now and I decided to just use semicolons consistently because the alternative is seemingly to use them inconsistently.
Strangely, this isn't an issue I have in #golang. I do have it in #rust however.
@mort I have the same issue going from #PHP to #Kotlin. Though not having it in Rust is weird. It's a semicolon language aside from returns, no? Or is it the returns that bug you?
Annotated strings in kotlin with ParagraphStyles or SpanStyles work great for simple forms of MFM (Misskey-Flavored Markdown), but the more complicated they get, the more I'm starting to think I need to look for a better option. Like, what the hell do I do for a blockquote? Or better yet, what the hell do I do for the animated ones? I'm getting really frustrated. If anyone better at Kotlin / Android development has any suggestions for me, please let me know because I am running out of ideas. #AndroidDev#kotlin#JetpackCompose
Async/await in #TypeScript is essentially “direct style”. It will be interesting to see if Effect, a monadic effect system, will take off, as a case study for #Kotlin & #Scala — although for “direct style”, these have the advantage of context parameters.
I'm very happy that I figured out how to place the icons in columns (responsive) and the names under the thumbnails. I find aligning things in Swing even harder than in CSS.
constants are weird in Kotlin. every language has one or two things that should be simple but are weird. I still love kotlin but still struggle with constants, and how copy/pasting files will drop them in IntelliJ every time because they are top-level and semi-classless
Love how Kotlin builds in helpers to all sorts of random things that Java never got around to doing. The padStart function came in super handy when saving data to a mainframe today and needing to pad zero's in front of the last four of an SSN: