Tag: kotlin

Kotlin Collections API Performance Antipatterns

Kotlin Collections API Performance Antipatterns

Published September 29, 2018

Kotlin’s Collections API is expressive and rich – but with great power comes great responsibility – there are certain practices that can cause an unnecessary time-complexity and object allocation overhead.

To fully understand the context, make sure to check the previous article first:

Kotlin: Beware of Java Stream API Habits

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Kotlin: Beware of Java Stream API Habits

Kotlin: Beware of Java Stream API Habits

Published April 29, 2018

Kotlin’s Collections API is extremely versatile and expressive but there’s one important thing to be aware of especially when migrating from Java.

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Kotlin’s java.util.Optional API Equivalents

Kotlin’s java.util.Optional API Equivalents

Published February 18, 2018

Kotlin truly shines when it comes to avoiding excessive bureaucracy of classical Type-Driven approaches to optionality.

Let’s see how does its native approach to null-safety compare to java.util.Optional.