Migrate back to Java

jotoho commented

2021-12-01 12:53:21 +01:00

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While this was originally supposed to be an exercise for learning kotlin, it has been made supremely clear that the additional runtime and compilation effort is not worth it. Especially considering the fact that the kotlin ecosystem is considerably focussed on App Developement on Android and little to no real documentation exists for normal PC usage.

I think it will be better in the long run, if I go back to "normal" Java even if that may have costs in the code like boilerplate.

This will hopefully allow this project access to new improvements and features of Java earlier and make working with Java tools easier (since I may want to use things like jpackage in the future)

While this was originally supposed to be an exercise for learning kotlin, it has been made supremely clear that the additional runtime and compilation effort is not worth it. Especially considering the fact that the kotlin ecosystem is considerably focussed on App Developement on Android and little to no real documentation exists for normal PC usage. I think it will be better in the long run, if I go back to "normal" Java even if that may have costs in the code like boilerplate. This will hopefully allow this project access to new improvements and features of Java earlier and make working with Java tools easier (since I may want to use things like jpackage in the future)