Or does anyone wanna buddy up and learn it with me?

I lost my job as a Java dev after a little less than 2 years and figured is play around with Kotlin for Android development.

Working on setting up unemployment and startinf the whole job hunt thing again for the umpteenth time in my life but will have a lot of free time in the interim so I wanna start working on an app idea for calculating dice weight for ttrpgs. I’ve been looking at Kotlin over the last few months and decided sure why not.

The plan is to get the fundamentals down and make 1 or 2 small projects and see where I am at. After that I’m considering chekcing out Rust as well. But that won’t probably be until next year.

Kotlin doesn’t have nearly as much of a community as Rust so this is probably a shit in the dark. But I guess but me up if you are interested. I’ve never done a buddy system with a language but with my attention issues it might help?

  • monobot
    5·
    11 months ago

    Kotlin doesn’t have nearly as much of a community as Rust

    Yeah, because it doesn’t need it, it is easy to get started. And I guess kotlin devs are busy making money.

    Joking a litle bit, but it is true. I expect there is much more work for kotlin than rust devs, especially with less experience.

    Go for it, make some small projects, extend some of existing open source ones.

    I was mostly working with php and python and taking ul kotlin was easy. I have few small apps I made for myself.

    So my suggestion is just jump into it, learn as you go.

    • ghostOfRoux();OP
      4·
      11 months ago

      This is encouraging, thanks. I admit I first started looking into Kotlin because on the surface it “looked” a bit like Python, but after working a bit with it this morning I don’t think that is the case. I have at least one app that I want to make for my dnd friends(the dice average/weight calculator) but nothing really lined up after that. I would like to make a chat/messenger app with encryption and rooms that automatically delete after a certain time. And playing with stuff like Briar’s Bluetooth mesh capability would be interesting. So I guess that is 2 apps I could toss up on github. Another thing I want to focus on is dusting off my github so I have actual projects to show to potential employers.