Hey folks, I’d like to share <KUnion>, a micro-lib...

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[George]

Hey folks, I’d like to share KUnion, a micro-library which provides an ADT to represent discriminated union types in kotlin.

Any review/feedback is welcomed!

[andylamax]

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[George]

Thanks for the report, mb, now probably should be ok.

[streetsofboston]

Looks nice.
QQ, though: How does your Union type fundamentally differ from the Either type (from Arrow-Kt)?

[George]

Tbh, they are not so much different since they both represent "either" A or B. But Either promotes railway programming. While I aimed to solve some specific problems at a large codebase which is using sealed classes to represent states, failures etc.

I have wrote a Motivation paragraph in README.md in case you want to take a look.
tl;dr i introduced this type to be more of a complimentary solution to regular direct kotlin style.