Otaku – Cedric's blog

I have a very complex relationship with math. I minored in math but I was really bad at it, and my classmates were regularly running rings around me. My mind was simply not a good fit for it. Then I switched to a computer science major, and everything...

It’s fascinating to me that so many years after the concept of Dependency Injection (DI) became popular, so many people still don’t seem to understand what it is and why it’s such a fundamental idea that transcends languages.
“I already have Dependency Injection, it’s called ‘passing parameters'”...

This is a follow up to my previous article, in which I explored a few aspects of Kotlin that Rust could learn from. This time, I am going to look at some features that I really enjoy in Rust and which I wish that Kotlin adopted.
Before we begin, I’d like to reiterate that my point is not to start a language war between the two languages, nor am I trying to turn one language into the other. I spent careful time analyzing which features I want to discuss and automatically excluded...

[Update: Part Two is up]
When I started studying Rust, I didn’t expect to like it.
Ever since I heard about it, many years ago, I’ve always had a tremendous amount of respect for the design philosophy and the goal that Rust was trying to achieve, all the while thinking this is not the language for me. When I switched from ten years...