Thanks for enabling this Sebastian! On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Sebastian Kaspari <skasp...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> Hey all (firefox-focus-public and mobile-firefox-dev), >> >> We just started a new Focus/Klar for Android sprint and I intent to >> enable Kotlin support: >> https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/975 >> >> Kotlin itself is not new. But since last I/O it is now an official >> first-class language to develop Android applications - support by the >> Android team(s). >> >> I do not want to write much about the language itself. Some good links to >> get started are: >> - https://developer.android.com/kotlin/index.html >> - https://kotlinlang.org/ >> - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ReS3ep-hjxWA8kZi0YqDbEhC >> qTt29hG8P44aA9W0DM8/edit >> - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1RVYt2QKQE >> - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbF8Q8LxAJs >> >> Some of the reasons why I would like to use it in Focus: >> - (1) It can be used side-by-side with Java code. You can call Java code >> from Kotlin and Kotlin code from Java as if it would be the same language. >> This makes it pretty nice to gradually introduce new code in Kotlin. >> - (2) Because of (1) I do not intent to migrate our existing Java code to >> Kotlin. The existing code is tested and it would be a waste of time to >> replace it without the need to do it. Of course migrating existing code >> could happen as part of writing new code or fixing bugs. >> - (3) Getting started with Kotlin in Focus is simple and straight-forward >> - compared to Fennec. >> > > Big +1 from me for figuring out if Kotlin is worth the fuss! > > Nick > > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev > > -- Susheel Daswani Senior Mobile Engineering Manager phone / text: (415) 218-7259
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