Kotlin & JVM first thoughts (Day 2) - Creating a SaaS Startup in 30 Days

After spending hours reading about the JVM and Kotlin, I was initially surprised by its complexity. However, its ecosystem structure is essentially the same whether for Java, Kotlin, or Groovy. It offers a wide range of libraries, and the framework I am using, Spring Boot, is quite simple.

Progress

So far, I have created a test controller, set up Gradle, and used Flyway to create the database migrations. I spent most of my time reading about JVM, Kotlin, and Spring …

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