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by noema
2112 days ago
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I find Kotlin more readable than Java in most cases -- less noise to drown out the actual logic. Could you provide an example of a language feature which requires you to "hold context in your head"? It's possible that you have just worked in bad codebases abusing Kotlin sugar. Inferred types for example can improve readability, but only if the variables are named appropriately. |
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Extensions. Basically every project has its own dialect of Kotlin that you have to know everything about if you're to understand anything. And good luck doing that without an IDE.
> It's possible that you have just worked in bad codebases abusing Kotlin sugar.
I've never actually worked with Kotlin, I've just seen many examples of it. The problem is, the language itself pushes the developer to use all the sugar, and they have to control that themselves. As opposed to Java, where writing unreadable code would take extra effort because of how dumb and simple the language itself is.
Also, to me it feels like an abstraction on top of Java that gets in my way as opposed to being helpful.
I love dumb programming languages.