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by smichel17 3325 days ago
It doesn't, but it eases a lot of frustration in other areas, which makes fragments slightly more bearable.

The standard library[0] functions `apply` and `run` are really nice with builders.

When I converted Red Moon[1] from Java to Kotlin (no functionality changes), the code base shrunk by around 1/6.

[0]: http://beust.com/weblog/2015/10/30/exploring-the-kotlin-stan... [1]: https://github.com/raatmarien/red-moon