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by rob74 15 days ago
I wasn't surprised that it's written in a JVM language, but I was surprised that that language is Java, not JetBrains' very own Kotlin...
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atraac 15 days ago
Youtrack was made long before Kotlin so I suspect the rewrite just wasn't worth it
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Cthulhu_ 15 days ago
Thing is, iirc Kotlin is mostly compatiable / interchangeable with Java so they could write any new code in Kotlin.
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rob74 15 days ago
TIL - YouTrack was first released in 2009, Kotlin in 2011, so I wouldn't call it long before, but definitely before. Guess I'm more interested in programming languages than in task management tools, that's probably why I have been aware of Kotlin longer than of YouTrack...
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arkadiytehgraet 14 days ago
Kotlin 1.0 was released early 2016. I can see why YouTrack team might not have wanted to commit using an unstable language, though I can also see the dogfooding angle.
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mike_hearn 15 days ago
You can port files from Java to Kotlin by pressing a button, but Jetbrains has generally not done bulk ports. They leave it up to individual devs to convert a file when it's being worked on, if the diff and VCS history pollution is worth it.
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