Good evening,
If anybody had doubts about the relevance of Java these days, the
attendance of UA2.118 @ FOSDEM last Saturday should be reassuring, this
is still a fairly popular language and environment, and still evolving
to reduce the gap with some of the "cooler" alternatives such as Kotlin.
I was hoping to meet some Gradle folks there, but as they were denied
their own stand and their talks due to fierce competition they didn't
show up (or maybe some did, but not publicly). Kotlin had their own
stand and I could talk a bit with them, though I abstained from boasting
about the uncanny things I'm doing with their project.
Le 2025-01-31 19:00, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
it's a slow and tedious process, though I think I'm progressing, and I
still have some hopes to be able to get the thing to work with the
Frankenkotlin.
I got a new Frankenkotlin to build with new backports by Wednesday and
resumed the work on downgrading Gradle's Kotlin code to get it to build
with that compiler and stdlib version. I'm already done with a few
modules and I'm currently on the most touchy one, kotlin-dsl. This is
still some tedious work, but not as tedious as backporting things into
the very outdated and customized Kotlin build. This time I'm definitely
not expecting the first stage to work on the first few tries, but I
still think that there are reasonable chances to succeed with this
approach, and valuable things for both projects maintenance will be
learned in any case. I will probably be able to share the results of
these experiments by next week.
Cheers,
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Julien Plissonneau Duquène
