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Comment by kodebach

19 hours ago

What wasn't "good enough" for you in Kotlin?

Sure, Java is slowly getting most of the features and sometimes even in a better form because they control the runtime (virtual threads arguably just work). But IMO Java is still incredibly verbose, Kotlin's type system is just better and I've genuinely never come across anything that would be easier to do in Java. Even virtual threads can be used from Kotlin.

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ejboy  10 hours ago

For me, Java 8 was tolerable. Also used IJ a lot and it hides Java verbosity and reduced a lot of typing. That's why I didn't really see the need to switch. For better or worse, these days I don't even open IJ and just use VSCode + AI Badger mostly to review my changes. Language matters even less.

za3faran  15 hours ago

I don't think Kotlin has fully fledged pattern matching with destructuring yet (like in Java's records) does it?

  • kodebach  8 hours ago

    No it doesn't, but it also doesn't need it. Whereas in Java you write:

      if (obj instanceof Point(double x, double y)) {
      foo(x,y)
  }

    Kotlin with its smart cast feature lets you do

      if (obj is Point) {
    foo(obj.x, obj.y);
  }