The kotlin-power-assert Kotlin compiler plugin is great (I may be biased as its author) as it enables diagramming of assert function calls. As the plugin grows and matures I’m discovering new use cases. One I wanted to try is the idea of soft assertions which many assertion libraries support. …

I’ve been playing with Kotlin/JS and React lately. I’ve been wanting to learn more about frontend development, and since I’m very familiar with Kotlin, thought Kotlin/JS and React would be a good entry point. React I’m not even going to pretend to be able to explain React. You should go read…

I like to follow the kotlinx.coroutines library closely on GitHub. Not really because I have anything to contribute, but because there is so much to learn! Take it’s use of the RequiresOptIn annotation (previously Experimental in Kotlin pre-1.3.70). There are some really nice ways this annotation is used, especially when…

At the time of writing this article, Kotlin IR is experimental. As such, information contained in this article about IR could be out-of-date or incorrect. If official documentation for Kotlin IR exists, please refer to it first. Ever since learning about them, I’ve been very interested in Kotlin compiler plugins…

Kotlin introduced inline classes in 1.3 as an experimental feature. They allow wrapping of a single value which is inlined at compile time. You can use them for ID classes and also for logging implementations. They are a great feature with some very interesting use cases. “Unused” type parameters can…