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If you're reading this it means you've found my first gemlog! Hooray!
Not much to say about it as of yet, as I'm not sure what it's going to become. Could be a devlog, anime review, or even something in between. We'll have to wait and see how it evolves.
Over the past few years, I've wanted to develop for Android but I wasn't sure how to get going (I don't like java all that much)... I recently found out about Kotlin so I'm going to have to get the Android devkit installed and give that a shot. If you've been wanting to do android dev but haven't been able to get past the whole Java thing, I recommend taking a look at Kotlin. It may be java derived, but it's very different from java. I'd put it closer to Go than most other languages I've personally messed with.
Bit of a shame I can't program for Android _easily_ directly in rust, python, lua or go. I'm just so much more comfortable with those languages. I did come across Kivy and Corona (now solar2d) but Kivy seemed like it wasn't going to perform very well and solar2d is unfortunately a game engine.
Who knows though, I might end up giving Vita development a shot before android, I've been super into game console programming lately.
Anyhow, thanks for reading my first gemlog, and may we meet again. Signing off for now
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