| I feel that the Kotlin community definitely needs a "No Jerk approach". I've recently been to a meet-up which was on the advantages of using Kotlin for Android development, the speaker exhibited many characteristics from this article. 1. Bob interrupts others, and ignores their opinions (When people asked questions, he downplayed them and in some cases declined to answer them) 2. Bob bullies, humiliates, and oppresses individuals. With non-technical people, he wins arguments by bamboozling them with irrelevant technical detail, making them feel dumb (When asked about Coroutines he started explaining irrelevant stuff like locks and guards and compiler level instructions without actually answering the questions) 3. Bob engages in displays of dominance in front of groups (He was quite assertive that his language is better than Java, no one could convince him otherwise) 4. Bob is negative. He trash-talks other technologies, companies, and people behind their backs (He trash talked Java) 5. Bob manipulates and misleads. Sometimes he misleads subtly, by presenting facts that are literally true in a way that is intentionally misleading. (He mislead people into thinking that null checks were just wrong and should be avoided altogether by writing code in Kotlin, he also indicated that writing data objects was not possible in Java) 6. Bob uses physical intimidation. Bob glares at those he doesn't like, and may invade people's personal space. (He said that if his team member was unwilling to learn Kotlin he was probably not worth his salt) 7. Bob gives great talks – about himself. 8. Bob refuses to change. (This was quite evident about him) To sum up, he was arrogant and loved humiliating the audience, I and a few others left the talk after 30 mins. |