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  1. Comment on What programming language do you use for work and what's your favorite language? in ~comp

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    With a primarily Java background, I switched to Kotlin a few years ago and it's been amazing. I feel much more productive, it's more enjoyable, I don't have to worry about NPEs. I've been working...

    With a primarily Java background, I switched to Kotlin a few years ago and it's been amazing. I feel much more productive, it's more enjoyable, I don't have to worry about NPEs. I've been working in a Ruby codebase lately and I'm really missing Kotlin and a statically typed language.

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  2. Comment on What programming language do you think deserves more credit? in ~comp

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    Since I already have a bunch of JavaScript experience I just brushed up on the new features with the site, http://es6-features.org/#Constants. Learning TypeScript also made it easy to understand...

    Since I already have a bunch of JavaScript experience I just brushed up on the new features with the site, http://es6-features.org/#Constants. Learning TypeScript also made it easy to understand how the scoping of let works (basically exactly as you would expect block scope to work). https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/variable-declarations.html

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  3. Comment on What programming language do you think deserves more credit? in ~comp

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    I haven't touched JavaScript in several years and just started learning ES6 and Typescript. The let keyword alone makes a huge difference and being able to have types makes me feel much safer...

    I haven't touched JavaScript in several years and just started learning ES6 and Typescript. The let keyword alone makes a huge difference and being able to have types makes me feel much safer coming from Java. After using Kotlin for the last few years there are definitely some niceties I miss. I didn't realize how much I loved the syntax for when the last argument is a lambda until now.

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