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Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #856 - Kotlin Expected to Surpass Java

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #856 - Kotlin Expected to Surpass Java

Hi Mom,

And, so, I am caught up. I am caught up and I did not sacrifice that much work time to get caught up.

So maybe I should be learning Kotlin?

It's on my list of things to do and I have done some reading about it.

This article is BIG NEWS for developers, like the people I have been hanging out with in Vantechy Meet Ups in my new home. More on that soon.

For now, I am studying Python and SQL, but I am looking for the next thing, which I was thinking should be Javascript, but maybe it should be Kotlin. It's not like many people are going to be able to claim that much experience with Kotlin... it's new.

Still, given that Kotlin can be compiled to Javascript, I probably should invest some time in Javascript. After all, as much as many would like it to be so, Javascript is not going away any time soon.

I know, Mom, you are not very interested in this as is also true of many of my readers.

But I am, and this is my study.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mobile/kotlin-expected-to-surpass-java-as-android-default-programming-language-for-apps/

Kotlin Expected to Surpass Java as Android Default Programming Language for Apps

Catalin Cimpanu

A new report released earlier this week estimates that Kotlin will surpass Java as the primary programming language used for Android apps by December 2018.

Until earlier this year, Kotlin was a little-known programming language [1, 2] that was built to run on the Java Virtual Machine, but one that could also be compiled to JavaScript and could interoperate with Java.

The programming language got a serious boost in the developer community when Google officially announced earlier this year, at the Google I/O 2017 conference, that Kotlin will become the first third-party supported programming language for Android apps, besides Java.

Kotlin adoption rate doubled since Google I/O

According to a report by Realm, a mobile development platform, the announcement skyrocketed Kotlin's adoption among Android app developers.

Kotlin's adoption rate for Android apps doubled from early May (Google I/O conference) from 7.4% to 14.7%, at the end of September.

If this growth continues, Kotlin will reach a 51% market share by December 2018, according to the Realm Report Q4 2017.

Among developers, Kotlin is considered Android's version of Swift, the easier-to-use programming language Apple introduced for iOS, and which ended up edging out the old Objective-C language.

Aftermath of the Oracle Java patent lawsuit

Google's announcement for supporting Kotlin on Android also comes after a long, drawn-out lawsuit that Oracle filed over Google's usage of some Java APIs inside Android, seeking huge payouts.

Back in 2016, right in the middle of the Oracle lawsuit, Google was looking for technologies for replacing Java on Android, and Kotlin was one of the top three favorites. The other two were Dart, a programming language created by Google, and Apple's Swift, which was both open source and the favorite, at the time, to replace Java. This time, Google is not using Kotlin as a base for the entire OS, but just as an alternative to writing Android apps.

"It’s clear: Java (on Android) is dying," the Realm team explains. "In fact, 20% of apps built with Java before Google I/O are now being built in Kotlin. Kotlin may even change how Java is used on the server, too."

"In short, Android developers without Kotlin skills are at risk of being seen as dinosaurs very soon," Realm experts add.

The countries where Kotlin is most popular right now are, in order, Germany, Japan, India, the US, and Brazil.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1711.09 - 10:10

NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.

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I am Christopher Tower the gmr

I am Christopher Tower (or Chris), and I am a writer of stuff. I grew up in Michigan; I now live in the Portland, OR metro area. I play Ultimate, ride a bike, and supposedly educate college persons while myself being educated in college. I am married with two kids, a beagle, a curly lab, and a fiesty pug/frenche mix. I like sushi. I love all SF, fantasy, comic books, D&D, board games, and Gnosticism. I am a Jungian. I am currently studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Walden University.

SENSE OF DOUBT STATUS AS OF 0705.04 - 16:45

Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

The Galactic Monkey Wrench

This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

Monkey Wrench Books

Chris's books

A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

This book is a little slower than the others. But if you become invested in this series, it provides key information about the history of Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. It may not contain chapters with my favorite characters ...

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Do I really need to review this book? It's one of the best books I have ever read. Martin is a great writer. All the books are great, and I am loving my time rereading them. If you have not checked out these books, start here and get ready ...

The Golden City

by John Twelve Hawks

These books are immensely entertaining. Treat yourself to some strong writing, great action, compelling characters, and a mix of metaphysics and theology. The ending of this third book, which is presumably the last, is anti-climactic and so...

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

This was a fun book. Not OSC's best but very good OSC nonetheless. The best thing about is the time travel, slowing, and speeding powers of the characters and how OSC engages the reader in discussion of causality and time paradox. For fans ...

Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

This book came to me via my wife Liesel who discovered it and urged me to read it. Beautifully written with compelling characters and a sense of the magical (yet realistic, somewhat). Funny yet full of the pathos that marks a good if not gr...

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