[yuye]

Couldn't agree more if I tried.

Scope functions are also great.

And the syntactic sugar where `foo({ a -> a })` and `foo { a -> b }` are the same makes code so much more readable.

I've done Python for a project at a previous job for a few months and it made me realize just how awful Python is, especially because you can't chain functions on collections as easily as you can in Kotlin. I also made me realize that I don't like dynamically typed languages.

[brabel]

> And the syntactic sugar where `foo({ a -> a })` and `foo { a -> b }` are the same makes code so much more readable.

That's 1-to-1 copied from Groovy by the way :)

[agumonkey]

Always strange how genes survived over time.

[hnben]

> `foo({ a -> a })` and `foo { a -> b }` are the same

I am new to kotlin, so I may be missing something obvious, but shouldn't it be "a->a" in the 2nd case, too?

[yuye]

You're right, my brain farted somewhere in the middle.

[MrBuddyCasino]

> Scope functions are also great.

They are useful but I'm not sure they carry their weight. I have to look up the differences often, maybe they're just terribly named?