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Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale

Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale.
Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well pas…

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chris.johan

chris.johan

I read a tweet from X a few weeks ago that some companies instead are rewriting their codebases from Scala to Java. Why is this so? Are writing Scala in an OOP way, instead of FP?

faust

faust

so they don’t use react native themselves?

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