Kotlin anyone

by antofar

Is anyone using Kotlin on the backend? I am very curious to hear/share experiences. What's the biggest pain you have with it and which framework are you using?

antofar

on January 27, 2020

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I used Kotlin with Undertow for a production backend a few years ago. It was a great experience. JVM stability + Kotlin language power.

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  I saw you mainly use go nowaday, how does it compare? I currently use Kotlin on Vert.x, generally happy but there a few aspects to improve.
  
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    It's better in some ways and worse in others. Some key differences worth calling out:
    
    Go's package model much simpler and easier to deal with than Maven which is a mess. pom files are the bane of my existence. Simply "go get" a package and it is added to your go.mod for reference.
    
    Kotlin's collection library is by far the best I've used in any language. Go has no such helper methods so it's a tiny bit annoying do things like find, map, any, etc.
    
    In general, I've enjoyed both. Go has a larger community at the moment but Kotlin has the benefit of running on JVM as well as having first class support for Android development, so more widely applicable knowledge.
    
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      Ah Maven, I've been having some fun with a couple of BOMs and parent POMs in my project in the last few weeks...
      To be fair the Maven stiffness brings some stability when I work on npm instead, I am always fearful when touching dependencies.
      
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