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Why Kotlin chose "object" keyword and not "singleton"?
In reading documentation on Kotlin I often misinterpret the intent because of the word “object” in the text.
I never read this as “a singleton”. To me (with my Java background) just about everything is an Object.
An example of my struggle: If an object in Kotlin is a singleton, what is an instance of a class?
It’s also taken me quite a while to come to terms with a companion object. The way I understand it is as follows :
A companion object is a singleton that you create inside your class so...