Command-line tools are great for automation, but choosing the right technology stack to build them can be tricky. I recently set out to build a new command-line application to streamline some tasks, drawing from previous experiences where the tooling left me wanting more.
This time, I chose a different combination of technologies that better suits my needs: Kotlin, Quarkus, and GraalVM. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the setup and decisions behind this stack—so you can get up and running even faster when building your own CLI tools.
— Read more... →Almost two months ago I visited Devoxx 2017. It’s about time to write some notes on the stuff I learnt there!
The week started off with a full afternoon workshop led by Stijn Vanpoucke. The workshop consisted of small pieces of theory, alternated with exercises using post-it’s and markers.
A few of the theoretic pieces:
This year had a lot of talks about Kotlin scheduled. To visit them all would take too much time, so I decided to follow just one by Venkat Subramaniam. I figured it would give me about the same amount of content…
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