Cedric Beust

Creator of Android Gmail and TestNG

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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.

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

@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...

[Juan Pablo Liska @juanpabloliska]

@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

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

@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 :-)

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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

[John O'Reilly @joreilly]

Rough around the edges but added Wasm based Compose for Web client to the Chip-8 KMP sample (https://t.co/aA3PRJP3wi) 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.

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

@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.

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

@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.

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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.

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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.

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

@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.

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

@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.

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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

[John O'Reilly @joreilly]

Was inspired by this article to create a Wear OS client for https://t.co/I7iPd6ouNz #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 - https://t.co/359Kz3K3Re)

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

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

[Cedric Beust @cbeust]

Chess engine update #6: https://t.co/N48fYmh7Dr