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Re:We're forking Flutter by 999900000999 on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @05:37AM (#41981471)
>I might be wrong, as I’ve worked with .Net professionally, but I doubt you can jump from Senior Unity C# developer to Senior Asp.Net developer. Language is a small part in modern development.

I'm not exactly senior to senior, but I hopped from mid level hobbyist Unity dev to professional Unity dev , to mid level .net dev. I have a very specific niche though.

I'm very comfortable with my career.

>Multiplatform Compose, on the other hand, is mostly pushed by JetBrains to eat some of Flutter’s lunch and promote Kotlin usage to drive their IDE sales.

Android Studio is free ? Are they really making that much money off users using Kotlin outside of Android Studio ?

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Re:We're forking Flutter by wiseowise on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @10:37AM (#41984268)
Android Studio is subsidized by Google and works pretty much only Android. The moment you have to work something more, e.g. some Web stuff you need to pay for IntelliJ Ultimate as it’s only IDE that supports Kotlin.

They even have Ktor (Kotlin web framework) plugin available only in Ultimate. For any non-trivial Kotlin development you need to have Ultimate.

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Re:We're forking Flutter by mdaniel on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @12:32PM (#41986127)
> you need to pay for IntelliJ Ultimate as it’s only IDE that supports Kotlin.

That is so stunningly false that I am pretty sure I'm feeding the trolls: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/24... (Apache 2)

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Re:We're forking Flutter by wiseowise on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @01:16PM (#41986879)
Right. Good luck developing Kotlin multiplatform, Ktor, Spring, anything web related or native with Intellij community.
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