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less is more, I just want the plain old search experience I've had for 25 years so I stated paying for Kagi around a year ago. (Before that I used DuckDuckGo which still seems fine…

Is the inclusion of synchronous interfaces a new thing? When I learned actix_web 2-3 years ago for some webservices at work, the documentation surely (at least) started of with asy…

nobody trusts AI agents, that's why they are put in a harness. It's just that I additionally belong to the people who don't trust AI agents to always adhere to harnesses either.

true, but you'd be wrong to assume that Germans only compound words if both parts are nouns, e.g. "Gehweg" (walk way) and "Springseil" (jump rope) use the base of a verb. We do act…

not anything. As a German I see no way to compound "boiling water". It remains two words: "kochendes Wasser".

thank you for the link to the talk! I actually witnessed the talk live, but must have completely missed this or simply forgot that this was answered :D

Rich Errors look promising to me, but what about interop with Java? What will the return-type of a function be on the Java side be, if the return type on Kotlin side is: Int | Pars…

technically, Kotlin can use VirtualThreads like it can use any other Java Api (when being compiled to JVM bytecode).[1] If I remember correctly the Kotlin team was e.g. thinking ab…

I really like languages with non-/nullable types like Kotlin and Rust! I used to work with Java for over a decade and therefore used to code very defensively against NullPointerExc…

I agree, i started with (scope) blocks in Rust, but keep the habit in Kotlin win the run - scope-function. Since run takes no arguments, it feels like the closest equivalent to Rus…

a Corridor Crew YouTube video describing/recreating that sodium vapour process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

this is exactly about what is legal or not. If I remember correctly in Germany there's a distinction about people being the focus of a photograph or people in the background. You c…

I works very well, thank you for asking: https://rustwasm.github.io/book/

Kotlin! personal disclosure: I'm a Kotlin fan boy. (If performance is important then Rust, but Kotlin is more ergonomic.)

In a worlde where kotlin exists, I still have not seen any reason to consider java XD

there are two ways to achieve native binaries with Kotlin: 1) Kotlin native https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-overview.html 2) Kotlin JVM but use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ …

I like Rust as much as the next guy, but Kotlin is the most ergonomic programming language I know. So my approach is to use Kotlin by default and should it some day become clear th…

I wonder if that confusion is due to the fact that you haven't yet wrapped your head around the fact that extension functions are "just" syntactic sugar for static functions. The i…

Jetbrains is working on an LSP: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-lsp It was announced at KotlinConf 2025.

I know one of these developers as well! It's me :D

this will change, Jetbrains is working on a Kotlin-LSP, just don't expect it to be done anytime soon: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-lsp

i've used ktor for 2 small-ish microservices. It's fine. I was curious about corouitnes. I know SpringBoot has support for corouitnes as well, but in ktor it's front and center. (D…

at the (semi-state owned) company (in Germany) I work at, Kotlin is a first-class language also for backend. It depends on the teams wheather they prefer Java or Kotlin. I'm firmly…

check out Borgo https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo It is Go with algebraic datatypes!

true, it's just that the topic of this post seemed strange to me, since you wouldn't use a programming language with GC for high intensity graphics app in native either, hmmm.