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Why Bother with Kotlin - Not Just Another Language Tour
Justin Lee talks about the layout and syntax of Kotlin projects, and looks at how these new language features combine to present a compelling new alternative to the Java source language.
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Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad?
Trisha Gee explores common coding scenarios using Java and Kotlin, discussing Java's evolution to improve productivity, and why staying up to date with Java can help.
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Writing Extensible Functional Code
Renan Ranelli discusses Protocols (Elixir & Clojure) and TypeClasses (Haskell) and relates them to alternatives in other languages (Mixins in Ruby and Extension Methods in C#).
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Programmatic Bean Registration with Spring Framework 5.0
Josh Long presents the existing programmatic bean registration support in Spring Framework 5 in both Kotlin and Java.
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Why Spring <3 Kotlin
Sébastien Deleuze presents how to use Kotlin in Spring, showing how to convert a Java Boot 1.0 application into a Kotlin Boot 2.0 one running on WebFlux.
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Fresh Async with Kotlin
Roman Elizarov talks about the traditional async/await approach that is based on futures/promises and how the Kotlin’s solution is providing a safer and easier programming model.
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Taming The Wild Frontier - Adventures in ClojureScript
John Stevenson discusses the benefits of using ClojureScript to write web applications.
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Scala Typeclasses
Emanuele Blanco introduces Scala’s typeclasses, discussing when to use them and how to implement them, looking at some examples and figuring out how to do more with less code.
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Homoiconicity: It Is What It Is
Stuart Sierra demonstrates the power that comes from having the same data representation at all layers: programming language, specification, database, inter-process communication, and user interface.
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Clojure Spec: Expressing Data Constraints without Types
Alex Miller introduces Clojure Spec which can be used for program validation, documentation, destructuring, instrumentation, data generation, and automatic generative testing.
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Parasitic Programming Languages
David Nolen examines the benefits and tradeoffs associated with creating a language based on an existing runtime, with a special focus on the Clojure and ClojureScript projects.
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Why We Chose Erlang over Java, Scala, Go, C
Colin Hemmings discusses when and why one should choose Erlang over other options, but also when not to choose it.