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@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-24 08:00:11

tl,dr: imho beginners should start with with either Go or Lua
Friends hit me with the age old question for their child which wants to learn programming: which language should one start with?
This had me thinking quite a bit. First thing that came to my mind was #Kotlin, my favourite, but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners, because it is quite heavy in high level concepts. …

@frankel@mastodon.top
2025-06-22 16:13:32

For the last two weeks, I’ve kicked the tires of @…. At first, I created a recipe to move #Kotlin source files as per the official recommendations with a set package name. I then improved the recipe to compute the root automatically. In both versions, I thorough…

@alsutton@snapp.social
2025-05-22 08:42:42

I get mixed feelings when I can create a small reproduction project for an issue caused by a single version bump in a third party dependency. It's nice to know it's not my code, but a fix-release is also out of my control
Today's problem; The compiler in #Kotlin 2.1.20. I've even managed to boil it down to a 1 line change where "2.1.10" works, and "2.1.20" o…

@frankel@mastodon.top
2025-06-06 08:29:04

Strengthening #Kotlin for Backend Development: A Strategic Partnership With #Spring
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@frankel@mastodon.top
2025-06-15 16:31:35

I started discovering @… last week by writing a #Kotlin recipe that moves Kotlin files according to the official directory structure recommendation. I mentioned some future works, and here they are. In this post, I want to describe how to compute the root packag…

@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-09 17:44:10

Over five years now I'm programming on the JVM. Started out with #Java, moved to #Kotlin as my daily driver, dipped my toes into #Scala and once in a while enjoy experimenting with