Kotlin • Android • PHP
After living years with wires, I realized that I needed to switch to wireless mode. Having wired headphones makes me less moving in the office – either less going to the bathroom or less going for water to drink. I want to change this. Next, there are too many wires on my desk. Years ago … Read more
Kotlin has a great feature that will allow you to preserve generic type T for further work, not only type resolution. So how much we can utilize it? This simple code does not take any “normal” argument, but it takes one generic argument – the T. Usually, we can just pass the T around to … Read more
In Kotlin, the expected code-flow should not use exceptions. The non-success code flow should be propagated through return type to be well-documented, strictly & statically typed. This post should be a practical guide after you have read Elizarov’s great post on Kotlin and Exceptions. Be aware that this post talks about domain errors, as described … Read more
A random list of missing language features in PHP. I do mostly Kotlin nowadays, so this is quite inspired by that language. I think these features could be (somehow) “easily” added into PHP. No new keyword It removes unnecessary keywords and allows to easily chain method calls. This cool feature also allows a nice trick … Read more
The last post was mainly about the variance explanation and it was using Kotlin. But what about other languages? Let’s explore together. TL;DR Language Generics dec. out dec. in use out use in type erasure break out rules Variance available on Kotlin ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ classes, interfaces Java ✔️ ❌ ❌ … Read more
A lot was written about variance and its application in generics. This is another trial to explain variance and its practical usage. Let’s explore this using Kotlin. This article expects basic knowledge about generics. Variance is a powerful way to allow your code to do more. It is most obvious when you consider generics with … Read more
