Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM

Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by vips7L on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:05PM (#22257816)

Just handle your catched exceptions? It's not that hard.

  () -> {
     try {
       // do work
     } catch (IOException ex) {
       throw new UncheckedIOException(ex);
     }
  }

I also agree with Goetz that extension functions aren't something we need.

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by int_19h on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:09PM (#22263150)

What's the point of even having checked exceptions, if you're going to have an unchecked counterpart for every one of them just so that you can flow them through lambdas?

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by pjmlp on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:10PM (#22258502)

Not only isn't hard, one can write a generic utility method.

Regarding extension methods, while they are nice, with import static it just a matter where the extended type comes, big deal.

And from experience in .NET world, hunting them down isn't always fun, even if they are just Ctrl+F12 away.

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by cryptos on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:18AM (#22264940)

It is not hard but cumbersome, ugly and ruins readability when used a lot.

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