Category Archives: Kotlin

Optional Kotlin

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Stephan Oudmaijer

Last week I was working on a code base which had been partially converted from Java to Kotlin. The converted Java code base was making extensive use of java.util.Optional. The use of Optional might be helpful in situations where you … Continue reading →

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Kotlin properties – from basic to lazy

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Jarno Walgemoed

Kotlin has many things going for it, with one of the main qualities being its built-in null-safety. This guarantees that properties will always have a non-null value at runtime, greatly reducing the risks of coding errors and NullpointerExceptions. In languages … Continue reading →

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Do we need a whole new ekosystem?

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Jasper Sprengers

There’s a joke that if you ask a developer to code a program to process widgets, they’d rather build a domain specific language and tool stack first to make life easier for when they might one day build the software … Continue reading →

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Kotlin Quick Tip: Annotation targets

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Jarno Walgemoed

If you — like me — are a sucker for reducing boilerplate and are using JSR-303 – Bean Validation (I use it as part of Spring Boot) then you may have noticed how it can help you reduce validation boilerplate … Continue reading →

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JMockit extensions for Kotlin

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Stephan Oudmaijer

Sometimes you have to deal with existing libraries… also libraries that do not provide out-of-the-box support for Kotlin (bastards!). What do you do in such a scenario? Write your own 😉 In one of my recent projects we were using … Continue reading →

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