Re: Exploring using Kotlin for building the "Cluster Management Service"

2019-01-05 Thread Udo Kohlmeyer
Hi there Aditya, Thank you for raising this topic. I've been thinking of using Kotlin for a VERY long time now. I believe that Kotlin will provide is with many benefits other than just `non-nullable` fields/parameters but also with immutability. Conciseness of code is another benefit and th

Re: Exploring using Kotlin for building the "Cluster Management Service"

2019-01-03 Thread Aditya Anchuri
Bringing the discussion on the PR back to the dev list An important point that was raised by Anthony was: " Introducing a new language to the Geode project raises some questions that we need to answer as a community before adopting this proposal: - When is it appropriate to use Kotlin? When s