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Re:The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies by cosmic_cheese on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:28PM (#42903658)
Have heard of it, haven’t investigated it deeply. Looks to still have some of the less-great points of the Java ecosystem on the build side of things (gradle) which is a detractor for me.

Kotlin’s syntax is also weird/quirky in some ways.

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Re:The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies by bartekpacia on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:10PM (#42904004)
> Kotlin’s syntax is also weird/quirky in some ways.

I'm curious to learn what you mean by this! :)

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Re:The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies by cosmic_cheese on Saturday February 01, 2025 @08:19PM (#42904570)
No terenary if and the elvis operator, for one. Stuff like that trips me up frequently when jumping between Kotlin and Swift/other C-likes.
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Re:The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies by koakuma-chan on Saturday February 01, 2025 @08:35PM (#42904698)
If expression: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/control-flow.html#if-expression Elvis operator: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/null-safety.html#elvis-operator
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Re:The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies by bartekpacia on Saturday February 01, 2025 @09:47PM (#42905204)
Ah, I see. Tbh, I actually like the lack of ternary and elvis, they are nicely handled by if expression (as the other comment notes)
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