Facts you may not know about Kotlin
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Language name comes from Kotlin Island near St Petersburg, and the talk shows concrete language mechanics: JVM generics use type erasure so casts can silently succeed unless you use inline reified functions; the Nothing type is a real compiler subtype used for functions that always throw; Java proxies wrap checked exceptions which can surprise Kotlin code; coroutines convert callbacks with suspendCoroutine/runBlocking/yield and can replace recursion. Demo builds a Conway’s Game of Life, compiles to a ~1MB Kotlin/Native binary, runs in browser via Kotlin/JS and serves animated GIFs with Ktor.
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