Meanwhile, on the Android side, modern Java tooling has been swell. Biggest complaint is probably lack of sum types.
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Did you ever consider Xamarin Studio and building once in F#/C#? (I haven't used it, just wondering)
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Yes. Not willing to yoke our destiny to small proprietary vendor.
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uhhhhh what super computers are you running Android Studio on?
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sum types are not as painful in Kotlin as in Java, and the lang overhead is insignificant compared to Scala
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Thanks for the nudge to go learn about sum types. Fun stuff!
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are you guys looking at (or using) Kotlin? I don't think it supports sum types, was just curious about your Android tooling.
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Nope. Think benefits don’t justify costs there. If we’re gonna use a non-standard language, it’d better get us x-platform support.
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are you using retrolambda to get JDK8 Lambda features in Android?
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