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Re:Ask HN: Platform for senior devs to learn other programmi... by dakiol on Saturday November 30, 2024 @08:27AM (#42281500)
I think the worst is Java/Kotlin. Gradle is a nightmare and I just refuse to spend my time learning it. I just can’t.
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Re:Ask HN: Platform for senior devs to learn other programmi... by the__alchemist on Saturday November 30, 2024 @07:32PM (#42285154)
I started Android development recently at work.

I will confidently back you up. I am a well-rounded programmer, and have used many languages and domains. Kotlin (in the Android SDK at least) is the most complicated, messiest, least-pleasant I've found. JS/Node is second place.

I'm reasonably confident it's not the Kotlin language itself I dislike, so much as the tooling associated with it, and the expected project structure.

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