Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.
Build times in nodejs are not so great in even medium size projects if you make heavy usage of advanced typescript features - either yourself or through libraries like zod. So if something makes the nodejs runtime faster, it could potentially make ts compiler faster too - for which I’d be very grateful.
I don’t use it right now, but two years ago I helped a team incrementally adopt Kotlin in a ten year old java/spring/mybatis codebase. We didn’t have any android experience and in the initial few months mostly used kotlin as a better java, avoiding features that would prevent us from switching back to java if needed.
But it worked pretty well - we didn’t face much resistence from people experienced with java because they could still continue to benefit from their jvm familiarity, and the language was approachable to new folks who joined us. It also helped that we could just copy paste java code into a .kt file and intellij would convert it to kotlin.
We didn’t venture into kotlin’s js/native targets but for jvm it worked out great for us.
What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels?
Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.
Some *real* benchmarks on Bun (compared with Node) -- It only wins *sometimes*, but it's mostly a fail (www.youtube.com)
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Is anyone migrating from Java to Kotlin at work?
I’ve been learning Kotlin recently & I find it to be a beautiful Language. Does anyone at work use Kotlin that isn’t an Android developer?