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23 Feb 2025 TL;DR Try creating a cli executable in your project that exposes common project tasks that are written in the project’s core language. This allows better contribution and less single points of failure with pockets of knowledge in the team.
This may be a personal lack of competence but when I’m writing scripts I’m looking for super fast feedback, which means I’ll often start just curl ing things on the command line or opening TextMate, setting it to bash and hitting ⌘+R. With both of these I’m running code straight away with very little ceremony, which I simply can’t reliably do for Swift or Kotlin as both pretty much require that I use an IDE to help with types and missed keywords ( try, await, suspend …). I personally found this a complete train wreck as I had to pull in loads of dependencies using@file:DependsOn and then very quickly hit the fact that I can’t write Kotlin without an IDE.
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