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diff --git a/doc/decisions_history.md b/doc/decisions_history.md index 1ae2cdd8..5090876d 100644 --- a/doc/decisions_history.md +++ b/doc/decisions_history.md @@ -1,5 +1,19 @@ # Technical decisions and issues log +## 2018.07.05-10 Kotlin Migration +[@joffrey-bion][1] — :key: *Backend, Kotlin* + +I recently fell in love with Kotlin, as it seems to improve the few things I disliked about Java: + +- no unnecessary verbosity, Kotlin is much more condensed than Java: properties, streams, data classes, etc. There +seems to be idioms for most things developers do all the time. +- non-nullability is enforced at compile time when using non nullable types (no more NPEs and unnecessary null checks) +- Kotlin stdlib has 2 different interfaces for read only and mutable collections + +Kotlin claims complete interoperability with Java and the possibility of incremental migration, so I decided to give +it a try and migrated the game engine and backend server of Seven Wonders to see how it goes and if I could do this +kind of change at work. For now, this has been quite a success. + ## 2017.08-2018.04 Livedoc development [@joffrey-bion][1] — :key: *API, Documentation* |