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Kshitij Chauhan
Personal blog · blog.haroldadmin.comprogrammingweb
Kshitij Chauhan's personal blog at blog.haroldadmin.com covers programming and web. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-03, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this developer blog for writing on Java and JVM language features and Kotlin, including null safety. The one comment cites the blog's post on circular references in Kotlin.
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What Hacker News says?
If I remember correctly, it's fairly easy to use @Nullable and still end up with nulls there, even without an IDE warning. I'll have to double check to see if I can still reproduce that. But, to be fair, it's actually fairly easy to break Kotlin's null safety, too: https://blog.haroldadmin.com/circular-refs-kotlin/ But I basically agree with what you've said. Kotlin is certainly still a much more ergonomic language,…
Comment linking /circular-refs-kotlin/
on “A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16”Submitted Introspecting Public Keys in ATProto as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Escaping FTS Queries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Deployments for Cloud Functions as a story · 1 points
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