Questions tagged [kotlin]

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Is there ever a reason in Kotlin to use threads over coroutines?

I have a good understanding of when coroutines in Kotlin are superior to threads. I know that coroutines are lightweight and are great for massive concurrency when, in contrast, spinning up lots of threads is costly in compute resources, memory…
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Using validate || throw

So, I recently added some validation logic to our controllers: interface Validator { fun validate(model: T): Boolean } Which is used in the controller like this: validator.validate(request) || throw Exception() During code review my…
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What is the relationship between Java Library and Kotlin?

I wanted to learn Kotlin but after reading online most experts seem to agree that learning Java first would be a first step in the roadmap of learning Kotlin. Their argument based on the fact that Kotlin developers may use Java Library. However, I…
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