On Sunday, 22 December 2024 at 10:56:26 UTC, Sergey wrote:
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 06:04:33 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
In any case, it was a great experience for the first month or
so but then when I started looking for more complicated "D
like" features such as CT/meta programming they don't seem to
actually exist... at least not in the way one thinks and seems
to be quite limited.
Maybe it is also worth to check Groovy meta-programming
abilities (including AST and macros).
https://www.baeldung.com/groovy-metaprogramming
That does look more "D" like and if it has things like traits and
string mixins then I probably could get used to it. But I doubt
it can interface with or replace Kotlin?
The main reason I use Kotlin is because of jetpack compose which
is quite easy to use. Although I don't like the way it deals with
state as it can be a PITA to figure what really is going on at
times.
If, say, I could write UI code in Kotlin and then business end in
Groovy and the compiler or IDE takes care of hooking everything
up(just as if I were to write the business end in Kotlin) then I
would likely use it.
That is, if I can import packages and types from one into the
other implicitly then it will work.
