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Good old Udemy Elixr/Pheonix courses being irrelevant within 6 months but still trying to con people by saying they're updated to current year.

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[โ€“] idunnololz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lmao. I love Android development but I've been doing it since froyo so I might have Stockholm syndrome.

I love shiny new toys :D. Kotlin as a language is p. good. The flip side to changing standards all the time is that stuff sometimes gets better :D.

Threads to coroutines was a huge improvement IMO.

[โ€“] HereIAm 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I agree kotlin can be a cool language sometimes. And I'm sure it's been a more gradual journey if you've worked with it while it's been evolving. But man, jumping in at Android 10/11 having to remain compatible with 7 (we've moved up to a minimum of 10 now thankfully) with how much background services and file storage permissions changed right around that time was an extreme headache to work around.

But I definitely prefer C#'s async/await Tasks than trying to wrap my head around all the various coroutine scopes, runBlocking and all that jazz. I know they are very similar concepts, but there's just something with coroutines that isn't clicking in my head.