• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    Isn’t the default for Android nowadays Kotlin? Which, yes, still runs on the JVM, but the language itself is much nicer designed.

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      6 days ago

      Yes. I have heard it is much nicer since last time I tried it.

      I might give it another try sometime, if AOSP survives what Google is doing to it, and my dream Linux phone still isn’t ready yet.

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        6 days ago

        I’ve used it for backend development not Android so I wouldn’t know how that’s improved (presumably you still have to deal with any Android idiosyncrasies), but I definitely loved it. Just knowing if something can be null or not is already awesome. Same thing I like about Swift, the language iOS uses.