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What's new in Kotlin 1.6.0
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- Presented by Anton Arhipov, Developer Advocate at JetBrains
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Anton Arhipov provides an overview of the new language features and updates introduced in Kotlin 1.6.0.
Kotlin 1.6 promotes a number of language features to stable status. In this video, Anton (twitter.com/antonarhipov) makes an overview of what's new in Kotlin 1.6.0: suspending functions as supertypes, better support for recursive generics, various additions for annotations, and Java interoperability. A number of updates are also listed for Kotlin/Native where the most exciting feature is the new memory manager that you can enable with a compiler flag. Learn about the standard library updates in Kotlin 1.6 here: youtu.be/GWWFCyfNGFs What's New in Kotlin 1.6.0 Blogpost - blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/11/kotlin-1-6-0-is-released/ Introduction Overview of the release Exhaustive when statements Suspending functions as supertypes Suspend conversions Recursive generics Builder inference Annotations on clas type parameters Instantiation of annotation classes Repeatable annotations The new memory manager for Kotlin/Native Other Kotlin/Native 1.6 features Final words #kotlin #releaseWhy it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Shared as the official announcement and feature overview for the Kotlin 1.6.0 release.