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Skip step 3, and just switch to Kotlin. Worked wonders for Android
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Yes indeed, and it feels really good.
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Is Kotlin bad?
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Kotlin is Java with all the suck taken out.
It's a modern, ergonomic language that runs on the JVM and removes as much GD boilerplate as it can.
It's fantastic.
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Sorry, one more question. What does ergonomic mean in regards to programming languages?
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Lots of little quality of life things. For instance, in Kotlin types can be marked nullable or not. When you are passing a potential null into a non-nullable argument, the compiler raises an error.
But if you had already checked earlier in scope whether or not the value was null, the compiler remembers that the value is guaranteed not to be null and won't blow up.
Same for other typechecks. Once you have asserted that a value is a given type, you don't need to cast it everywhere else. The compiler will remember.
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Ooh, thank you
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Kotlin is the tits
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