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- java@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- java@programming.dev
Explore different Java frameworks such as Java 21, Quarkus, Spring Boot, Maven, JUnit 5, and Testcontainers.
Explore different Java frameworks such as Java 21, Quarkus, Spring Boot, Maven, JUnit 5, and Testcontainers.
Kotlin
…that’s a language.
Think Spring Boot or Play or Grails, etc.
Edit> Nevermind, the title here didn’t properly reflect the title of the article. Kotlin is very valid as part of the stack of development in Java. My apologies for my pedantry :)
I’m not a huge fan of Kotlin. Overall it’s fine, but in my opinion it tries to do too many cool things. It feels like a playground for language authors.
My view on it as an Android dev: it’s a powerful language that has stripped back all the boilerplate and crustiness of Java into concise and expressive functional programming.
I dislike how much I write to say very little in Java.
It does mean that there is a lot more of a learning curve to Kotlin.
Every language is a playground for language authors, that’s how they develop.