Re:Kotlin for JavaScript
by johnfn on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:44PM
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It doesn't have anything to do with price. The point is that I've invested a lot of time knowing my IDE (vscode) very well. Switching IDEs on the basis of a language which I've never used is a huge leap. You could make that leap a lot easier by allowing me to use it somewhere I'm comfortable first.
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As others have mentioned in this thread, you are absolutely allowed to write Kotlin in VSCode! There is a perfectly good VSCode extension [1] for it. You may not receive the same extensive support that IntelliJ IDEA provides, but as Kotlin developer who occasionally writes in VSCode, I find it's decently usable. Once you're familiar with the command line, you'll probably be more productive running Gradle commands than fiddling with buttons and UI widgets anyway.
[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fwcd.kot...