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Looking into Kotlin, and it seems pretty cool, but I just can't get over how unnatural and annoying the mapOf syntax is.

In JavaScript: const obj = { a: 1, b: { c: 3, d: 4 } }

In Kotlin: val obj = mapOf("a" to 1, "b" to mapOf("c" to 3, "d" to 4))

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kotlin

Looking into Kotlin, and it seems pretty cool, but I just can't get over how unnatural and annoying the mapOf syntax is. In JavaScript: const obj = { a: 1, b: { c: 3, d: 4 } } In Kotlin: val obj = mapOf("a" to 1, "b" to mapOf("c" to 3, "d" to 4))

rant

dumb syntax

js

kotlin

Looking into Kotlin, and it seems pretty cool, but I just can't get over how unnatural and annoying the mapOf syntax is.

In JavaScript: const obj = { a: 1, b: { c: 3, d: 4 } }

In Kotlin: val obj = mapOf("a" to 1, "b" to mapOf("c" to 3, "d" to 4))