This article is overdue. After the hype around the release of Kotlin 1.0 has settled, let's have a serious look at some Kotlin language features that we should have in Java as well. In this article, I'm not going to wish for unicorns. But there are some low hanging fruit (as far as I naively … Continue reading 10 Features I Wish Java Would Steal From the Kotlin Language
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The Inconvenient Truth About Dynamic vs. Static Typing
Sometimes there are these moments of truth. They happen completely unexpectedly, such as when I read this tweet: https://twitter.com/whileydave/status/536422407297171457 David is the author of the lesser-known but not at all lesser-interesting Whiley programming language, a language that has a lot of static type checking built in it. One of the most interesting features of the … Continue reading The Inconvenient Truth About Dynamic vs. Static Typing