Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries

Re:Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries by meddlepal on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:25AM (#17809862)

This. I really only bother touching languages with good to great IDE experiences which is why I basically concentrated on JVM tech for most of my career. The good news is that the tools story is improving across all languages these days.

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Re:Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries by kleiba on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:05PM (#17813235)

In other words, you're intenionally limiting your horizon because of convenience?

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Re:Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries by meddlepal on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:57PM (#17815926)

Not really practically but yes in theory? The JVM is host to many languages with different paradigms and it is not like I don't futz around with other stuff. I refuse to write serious code in poorly tooled languages and at this point in my career there are also some areas of exploration I just don't care about (e.g. machine level programming with ASM or C/C++ and web dev with JavaScript).

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Re:Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries by kleiba on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:42AM (#17819476)

Ah, okay. What I didn't quite get from your original post was that you were talking about professional-level coding. That makes sense, I guess.

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Re:Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries by geezerjay on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:07PM (#17829386)

To be fair, life is indeed too short to waste it trying to wrangle unusable tools, particularly when potential gains are slim to none.

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