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Re:Kotlin 1.4 by Semaphor on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:13AM (#24196651)
> Greytext types that are inferred are super useful.

All the Jetbrains IDEs have that. When they enabled it, I was annoyed for a while (not enough to turn them off), but now I love them :) Especially, as you mention, for LINQ (in C#, essentially chained operations like map/reduce/etc.)

Re:Kotlin 1.4 by jansan on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:01AM (#24197620)
I am using IntelliJ's WebStorm for my own project and Visual Studio Code for a company project, because all other team members are using it and we agreed to use the same tool.

I like WebStorm so much better. The inline parameter names on function calls, the local history, the awesome diff tool, the refactoring capabilities (even for Javascript). This makes is well worth the money. Also, I like IntelliJ's perpetual fallback license policy. Feels very fair to me.

Re:Kotlin 1.4 by Semaphor on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:02AM (#24198063)
> Also, I like IntelliJ's perpetual fallback license policy. Feels very fair to me.

It required a huge outcry, but they did the right thing in the end :)

Re:Kotlin 1.4 by donmcronald on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:54PM (#24206703)
> Also, I like IntelliJ's perpetual fallback license policy. Feels very fair to me.

That's nothing. You should have been here when they used to let us buy the tools :-)

Re:Kotlin 1.4 by 1f60c on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:55AM (#24197223)
You probably already know this, but if you spread the query over multiple lines, it’ll show you the exact type at each step.