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Re:Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it by maccard on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:25AM (#43491726)
> kotlin are an option on JVM

I definitely liked writing Kotlin code in the past, but we had a medium sized Kotlin web api at a previous job, and a very large c++ app. The c++ app was quicker to compile than the Kotlin app on many many occasions, and the toolchain and IDE integration situation reminded me (not in a good way) of working with eclipse - even with intellij

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Re:Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it by pjmlp on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:37AM (#43492535)
I am not a big fan of Kotlin, given its community specially in Android circles, but the language is there as better Java.

Compile times might be an issue, I know it was an issue in the past.

C++ can actually be quite fast to compile, if the right decisions how to approach the build infrastructure and code styles were taken, which usually is not the case, hence its fame to slowness.

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