Cedric Beust

The problem with dynamically typed languages is that they favor the developer who writes the code at the expense of the person who will maintain it. This is exactly the opposite of what we want.

@AdamBien @kotlin @java @IngoKegel When you say that in your Java code base, NPE's are not an issue, you don't seem to account how hard and how long it was to get there. You fix NPE's in Java by experiencing them in production, Kotlin doesn't let your bad code get there in the first place...

"Why @kotlin is Better Than @java" -- an airhacks.fm conversation with @IngoKegel is ready to listen 👉 adambien.blog/roller/abien/e… #Java #Kotlin #Podcast

@hhariri A challenging space, but if anyone can do it it’s JetBrains. yaml, though? I hope the guys working on this project have read the Kobalt codebase and consulted @cbeust Also, Gradle is Kryptonite to JS devs

@AdamBien @Stephan007 I had a lot of fun reminiscing with you too! Happy to do that again.

@cbeust @Stephan007 Cedric -> the Episode 134 #episode_134" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">airhacks.fm/#episode_134 with you was fun! Especially talking about the old Java days like e.g. JavaPolis (EJBGen :-)) time frame :-)

Was a fun chat with @AdamBien Now I need to find my "Get Out of Jail Free card" 🤪 #Hacking

@Stephan007 @AdamBien Also, unrelated, but being a speaker on your very first JavaPolis is a badge honor I wear with pride. Great memories from back then :-)

Don't worry about your code being fast until you have irrefutable proof from your profiler that it is slow.

Rough around the edges but added Wasm based Compose for Web client to the Chip-8 KMP sample (github.com/joreilly/chip-8) cc @bashorov Right now it's loading Space Invaders ROM by default but should work with others ones as well (was cool to see btw how straightforward it was to load that file using Compose resource() API) Think I need to make some changes to implementation of virtual game CPU/Clock (for project in general) but seems to work reasonably well.

@BruceEckel Kotlin is still slightly ahead of Rust in terms of QOL features, but I've written nothing but Rust for the past two years and I've been loving my journey so far.

bruceeckel.substack.com/p/the-python-r… My experience using Python and Rust together.

@BruceEckel Your path looks a lot like mine, Bruce. I did not expect to like Rust as much as I did when I started exploring it a few years ago, with all this explicit memory wrangling. But I love the language now.

My dear friend and incredible coder Bob "crazybob" Lee was stabbed to death last night in San Francisco. I just cannot comprehend this news. It is such a loss, we will miss his brilliance and kindness. I know I will.

Today is a great day to publish all your private projects containing code you haven't had time to polish. If you get made fun of, you can always claim it's an April's Fool.

@adamgordonbell It would mean that this thing that you made has become incredibly popular. Surely this would outweigh everything else. Nothing lasts forever, most software dies running out of users, being outlawed by the government is not a bad way to go.

Imagine governments asking people to stop using the thing you made. Even if they had points, that would hurt.

@phil_kgy @mariofusco @ingramchen Which is basically removing all safety checks and celebrating that the code is now cleaner.

@mariofusco @ingramchen That's why in industry all checked exception will be caught and be thrown again as RuntimeException

In Java 1. Every method has a color 2. Any blue method can be simply called 3. A blue method calls a red one in a painful way otherwise it also becomes red 4. A red method can simply call another red one only if they have the same shade of red otherwise 3. What are red methods?

@mariofusco @ingramchen There is one legitimate scenario where checked exceptions are "bad", but nobody ever gives that correct answer. Wanna take a guess?

@ingramchen Correct, and that's why checked exceptions are bad

@mariofusco @ingramchen That's why checked exceptions are *good*. If I call a function that can't fail, and then later a new version of that function can fail, I want my code to stop compiling until I fix my calling code to handle, or forward, the error.

@elonmusk @TitterDaily Name the advertisers returning. We'll wait.

@TitterDaily Yeah, generally correct. Titter was trending to lose ~$3B/year (revenue drop of ~$1.5B + debt servicing of ~$1.5B) and had $1B in cash, so only 4 months of money. Extremely dire situation. Now that advertisers are returning, it looks like we will break even in Q2.

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Was inspired by this article to create a Wear OS client for github.com/joreilly/chip-8 #KMM sample! Not exactly perfectly suited to a device like this but it kind of works 😀 (repo is based on @cbeust's original chip-8 emulator project - github.com/cbeust/chip-8)

@joreilly What a super cool idea and execution, very well done, John!

@mariofusco Depends compared to what. Java is excessively verbose compared to Kotlin, but about on par compared to Rust.

Now tell me again that Java is verbose and doesn't move forward fast enough 🤔

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