In this mini Fragment, KG talks about his journey learning Kotlin as a newb. Given that Kotlin is most likely going to be the de-facto language for most developers, it makes sense to deepen our understanding of the language (as we have strived with Java over the years).

"Properties" in Kotlin are a first class language feature. But what does that actually mean? What are the nifty features we get with properties? How are these resolved from a Java class when there's potential a name clash? What are some other gotchas and learnings from using properties? Listen on to find out:

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Shownotes:

• Kotlin docs - Properties and Fields
• Kotlin in Action - Manning Publications
• java.util.Calendar
• Mutable vals in Kotlin - Dan Lew

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