Sebastian Aigner explains the newly stabilized features and changes in the Kotlin 1.6 standard library.
With Kotlin 1.6, the standard library gets more love! Join Sebastian (twitter.com/sebi_io) and learn about the newly stabilized features included in this latest release: collection builders, durations, bit-level rotate operations, the typeOf function for reified generics, and more. You’ll also get an overview of the newly introduced multiplatform functions for handling standard input.
What’s new in Kotlin 1.6.0 video: youtu.be/6jrmcfYdfvI
What's New in Kotlin 1.6.0 Blogpost - blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/11/kotlin-1-6-0-is-released/
Overview
Handling standard input
Experimental features gone stable
Collection builders
Duration API
Split to Sequence
Rotating Bits
typeOf
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With Kotlin 1.6, the standard library gets more love! Join Sebastian and learn about the newly stabilized features included in this latest release: collection builders, durations, bit-level rotate operations, the typeOf function for reified generics, and more.