kotlin

Today’s Kotlin library article is about the kotlin.concurrent package, and everything that adds to the platform.

Java’s concurrency package is already quite sophisticated, and rather than re-invent so many extremely delicate abstractions, the Kotlin authors focused on making the libraries better suited to the language by decorating and shortening various features.

Many moons ago, I wrote an article on the feasibility of currying and partial application in Java 8, and asserted that, while it was technically feasible, explicit and thorough type syntax in the language, as well as inflexible operator notation prevented it from being approachable. In comparison, is Kotlin up to the challenge?

This is the second article in a series around Kotlin standard library additions. This article is all about the Kotlin comparator factory functions.

This is the first in a series of articles that will quickly go over some of the more interesting bits of the Kotlin standard libraries for Java. Today’s run-through is about some of the more interesting affordances for I/O based programming.