Groovy and Kotlin borrowing heavily from Java. Groovy and Kotlin are also very similar to each other.

You do have a Void type in Java if you really must specify a return type and don’t want to return anything e.g. services and their tasks in JavaFx. The Task must have a return type thus you can use Void if the task doesn’t actually return anything.

If you also enjoy Diablo there’s a mod for Grim Dawn: https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/mod-reign-of-terror/35347.

Great game. They also update it regularly with new content for free. There’s a new paid expansion coming soon.

Edit: Currently have played it for 740h.

Wikpedia puts it nicely:

"The concept of concurrent computing is frequently confused with the related but distinct concept of parallel computing,[3][4] although both can be described as “multiple processes executing during the same period of time”. In parallel computing, execution occurs at the same physical instant: for example, on separate processors of a multi-processor machine, with the goal of speeding up computations—parallel computing is impossible on a (one-core) single processor, as only one computation can occur at any instant (during any single clock cycle).[a] By contrast, concurrent computing consists of process lifetimes overlapping, but execution does not happen at the same instant. "

A cpu (core) can only do one thing at a time. When you have multiple cores you can do multiple things at the same time. Multitasking in programming sense is a bad term, it’s a term more for the masses.

Bit simplified:

• concurrency: you seem to be doing multiple things at the same time. In reality they are run little by little one after another. Doesn’t really speed things up.
• parallelism: you actually run multiple things at the same time (multiple cpus/cpu cores required). If the code scales properly or is designed to truly run in parallel the speed up is relative to the number of cpus available.

Edit: It’s much more complex subject then I’ve presented here.

Excellent article. That’s why I use OSS first and foremost as they don’t have the incentive to bring in € instead they are more focused on a quality product.

Introduction to algorithms or The Art of Computer Programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism

Filen is good. Works like a charm. Back in the days I got their pay once for 100GB of storage package and am very happy about it. Looks like they have the starter 100GB lifetime available still i.e. pay only once.

I use that myself though haven’t sent a sms/mms in like > 10 years. Anyhow FOSS > stock spyware any day. The fossify project has many other useful tools as well.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.messages/

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Messages

If this is supposed to be a comparison for Kotlin developers why are all the Spring Boot examples in Java instead of Kotlin?

The whole article also is more of a what Ktor is and why it’s better instead of actually comparing the two.

Here’s the final peer reviewed version https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/.

They didn’t use very comprehensive research methods. Also they only used Github.

First, from the GHTorrent data set, we extract the email addresses of GitHub users. Second, for each email address, we use the search engine in the Google+ social network to search for users with that email address. Third, we parse the returned users’ ‘About’ page to scrape their gender.

a bias against men exists, that is, a form of reverse discrimination.

How is it reverse discrimination. It’s still plain old discrimination. I’m starting to smell a biased research here. Or at least the researchers have a bias.

This research isn’t peer reviewed so I wouldn’t take it at face value just yet.

There’s a dialog within the program to enter your key though I haven’t checked if it connects to the internet at that point. I use an account so I can easily use it on several computers.

It doesn’t auto update and you don’t need to login. You can enter your key directly.

They also offer their software for free for open source projects.

Learn Groovy

Stay away from Groovy. It’s a horrible language. It’s quick to write but slow and difficult to read. It’s conventions make it a very error prone.

Link to the things you mention e.g. you say to get familiar with Loom. When searching for that all I get is some screen recording software (probably not what you meant).

Scala pays better than Java or Kotlin

According to what research?