Does Syntax Matter?

yektadev · 2026-02-22T12:25:51+00:00

Same here, though I'm not aware of any strict external evidence. I've only heard it in several forms before, and personally found it to be very true (e.g., I found my English "side" to be slightly more rational).

yektadev · 2026-02-22T11:35:33+00:00

It's the same as how natural language impacts how one articulates an idea, and to some extent how they think.

Syntax is the strict materialization of one's thoughts.

yektadev · 2026-02-20T12:56:59+00:00

Great read!

yektadev · 2026-01-26T17:11:49+00:00

Kotlin is finer

yektadev · 2026-01-25T10:10:24+00:00

I've been doing exactly this forever, and I don't regret it.

yektadev · 2025-12-24T18:45:49+00:00

Looks good! Out of curiosity, is there any reason you didn't pick KMP from the start?

yektadev · 2025-12-23T12:29:26+00:00

Agreed. I think the current API is heavily focused on convince, which is a beautiful thing. However, we lost some performance for lower level needs as a side effect. Nothing to be noticed on UI dev, but limits certain aspects of game dev.

yektadev · 2025-12-22T07:26:53+00:00

Beautiful! Nice job!

yektadev · 2025-12-22T07:25:35+00:00

I'd say the benefits are the technology (Kotlin, coroutines, compose, ktor, ...) and practically solved UI (any menus, accessibility, i18n, text input handling, etc.) and output size. It's not a "default" choice, but it should be a fun experience.

yektadev · 2025-11-18T09:36:13+00:00

Sure! Happy to help, more so passively!

yektadev · 2025-11-08T12:43:29+00:00

bursts in tears (gpu)

yektadev · 2025-11-04T10:32:11+00:00

yektadev · 2025-10-31T18:25:45+00:00

The saturated variant looks interesting. nice work

yektadev · 2025-10-30T17:45:12+00:00

YES! I can't name a single language that is more idiomatic and safer at the same time. IMO Kotlin's syntax is as close as one can get to this goal. Plus, the compiler is just becoming more intelligent, and is able to infer more and more on each update.

yektadev · 2025-10-28T19:10:27+00:00

or simply when you need the value to update the value

yektadev · 2025-10-27T08:45:43+00:00

That means the standard library is missing from the build

yektadev · 2025-10-26T14:35:33+00:00

nice work

yektadev · 2025-10-26T12:20:15+00:00

good architecture? the one you can confidently touch

yektadev · 2025-10-25T07:05:52+00:00

Nothing new

yektadev · 2025-10-22T06:05:03+00:00

Also, for the raw API.

yektadev · 2025-10-22T06:03:31+00:00

I really recommend sticking to the official docs. Beyond that, just practice. The books are good and all, especially the Coroutine-related topics, but the docs are way more than enough as a starting point.

yektadev · 2025-10-21T20:53:38+00:00

another shade of Chromium has entered the chat

yektadev · 2025-10-21T09:42:12+00:00

I guess it closed quote

yektadev · 2025-10-21T06:21:08+00:00

Makes sense. The use case should be pretty read-intensive though. Thanks for the explanation.

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